T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

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I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

Jim James

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I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

Robert Mankoff

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I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.

Anna Paquin

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The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration of Independence means what it says in its opening lines, that being the world's greatest nation means that we offer the world's greatest opportunities.

Rod Lurie

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For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.

Mary Gaitskill

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I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

Chris Tucker

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I'm always in the market for my acting.

Clarence Clemons

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I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I'm just not that - as much as I'd love to have that sort of mystique, I think I'm kind of an open book.

Bonnie McKee

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An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

Bobby Flay

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I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

Bob Geldof

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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

Wole Soyinka

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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

William Gibson

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