Al Jarreau Quotes
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.
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A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.
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Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
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If you can't love who you are now, you can't get to the place you want to be.
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In a word, commercial competition, under the paternal aegis of the law, allows the great majority of merchants-— and this fact is attested to in countless medical inquests-— adulterate provisions and drink, sell pernicious substances as wholesome food, and kill by slow poisoning… Let people say what they will, slavery, which abolitionists strove so gallantly to extirpate in America, prevails in another form in every civilized country; for entire populations, placed between the alternatives of death by starvation and toils which they detest, are constrained to choose the latter. And if we would deal frankly with the barbarous society to which we belong, we must acknowledge that murder, albeit disguised under a thousand insidious and scientific forms, still, as in the times of primitive savagery, terminates the majority of lives.
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I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.
