Common (Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn) Quotes
After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.
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I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.
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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
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As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
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My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
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In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier praise than Cleveland usually gets from Europeans.
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I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.
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After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.
