Curtis Mayfield Quotes
Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth
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Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors
