Clement Mok Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
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The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.
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Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.
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Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.
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Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
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Our religions are much more similar than they are different.
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'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
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I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.
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We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.
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I gave away most of my trophies, put away the plaques.
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Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
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Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.
