Cliff Chiang Quotes
A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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Cuando no ando en las nubes, ando como perdido.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.
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The cause of peace is too great for us to allow political disagreements or partisanship to stand in our way.
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I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.
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A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.
