Afrika Bambaataa Quotes

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

Afrika Bambaataa

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FamilyPeopleColorBlackLatino

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Jimmy Wales

KnowledgePeopleMeHelpHands

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.

Joel Hodgson

FriendSongStoryExplainTheme

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

John Gourley

MusicPinkReasonThingsBeatles

In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point.

Meghan Daum

Moving OnMovingWritingWorldPoint

The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.

John Ortberg

TogetherSoulWorldWorthYouTeeth

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

ScienceMoneyIntelligenceEnough

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.

Sonny Rollins

EnoughPlayJazzMovementModern

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

VisionBetterPictureBecomeMore

My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.

Mohamed ElBaradei

ChildrenControlColleaguesCareShe

Football does not stop. Spanish football is proud of its past, but we will look to the future.

Julen Lopetegui

FutureFootballPastProudLook

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

Dick Dale

PeopleStartKnowTalkNeverSound

I am very comfortable travelling and going into other territories.

Deontay Wilder

I AmComfortableGoingTravellingAm

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