Roots Quotes
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The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
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I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.
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I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.
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Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
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It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was trying to break the stereotype of Arabic language. The non-translation work, this is where I make the switch, where you don't need to translate.
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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.
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When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
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Guess will always be loyal and true to its roots.
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I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
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You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing.
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I never traced my roots, man. I only know that I'm a brother with a big heart - and that somebody brought my roots over here by way of boat.
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
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The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.
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The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
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Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
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If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here
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It's a poor sort of virtue that has no roots in love. It's why you do or don't do a thing that matters most to my mind. If love of God comes first with you then you deny yourself to keep His commandments, you give away your whole life to Him and glory in what the world calls loss.
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My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.
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What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.
