Jimmy Cliff Quotes

When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

Jimmy Cliff

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Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

John Malkovich

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One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I don't know anything.' The only thing I'd ever technically studied was filmmaking.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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I kind of love working on film because television in live, that's tricky.

Rob Marshall

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Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

Mary Schmich

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As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.

Jason Moran

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'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

Douglas Coupland

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Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

Conor McGregor

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Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.

Clint Smith

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If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.

Brett Hoebel

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To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

Anton Corbijn

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I'm definitely drawn to stories of just regular folks, just generally in some kind of horrific situation. I keep saying I want to do a love story in the south of France with a boy and girl and some wine. Then I always end up in an oil rig with four hundred guys or on a mountain with guys shooting at each other.

Peter Berg

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