Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes

Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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MusicMyselfMeWantResponsible

Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.

Jerry Kramer

LifeBestMy LifePlayWatching

I plainly felt that, had God given me such a retirement with the companion I desired, I should have forgotten the work for which I was born and have set up my rest in this world.

John Wesley

WorkGodMeWorldRestRetirement

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

John Scofield

FindJazzInspirationMuch

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Amy Bloom

HappinessConfusedInterestingGet

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

Amy Cuddy

PeopleFeelWantLeadersUnderstood

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

Dick Gephardt

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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Branch Rickey

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Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret.

Antony Gormley

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The music industry has become so unpredictable. And I think people know that if someone has a Number One song, it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll have several ones after.

Astrid S

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I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

Rick Baker

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I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.

Noah Hawley

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Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.

Lupe Fiasco

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