J. C. Watts Quotes
That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.
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Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.
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No ray of Light can shine if severed from its source. Without my inner Light I lose my course.
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The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
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That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'
