Yance Ford Quotes
'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really grew out of the very vibrant hip-hop scene that, you know, is located and still generates artists out of Long Island.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
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And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
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When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.
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There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really grew out of the very vibrant hip-hop scene that, you know, is located and still generates artists out of Long Island.
