Quotes for 1/10/2012

• We went from having one person on the road with us to having an entourage of seven. You start having staff around you saying you need more eyeliner, the publicist comes and talks to you about how to answer questions. They're telling me who I need to favor in the room, which guy is the major deejay. They teach you how to become a politician. I'm thinking why do I need to know all this stuff? This is a grand manipulation. There's a strategy to getting your records played. As nice as everyone was, I just didn't look at music like a business. ( Jade Warrior)
• We really had nothing to show other than what was on video or film. But in terms of having enough money to buy a house, that was not happening. I thought; I have a college degree. If I'm smart I can get the same kind of money with my education with no limos attached. It all kind of hit a brick wall at the same time. Giant was going through politics that we were unaware of at the time 'cause we were on the road. And we were tired. ( Jade Warrior)
• It reminds me of a piece of jade. The emerald light coming from within is refracted and dispersed according to the consistency of the impurities that gave it its quality. ( Jade Warrior)
• This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. ( Jade Warrior)
• A Jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated ( Jade Warrior)
• Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded ( Jade Warrior)
• If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods ( Jade Warrior)
• Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia! / What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day? ( Jade Warrior)
• There is no whaler and no whale biologist, no matter how experienced, who is so jaded that his heart does not race at the sight of a blue whale. ( Jade Warrior)
• It's not that I'm emotionless, I just have the ability not to be controlled by things like love and hate. ( Jade Warrior)
• Jagged kinda has a set fanbase, they know our sound. Whenever they hear a Jagged record, they know it. We try not to get too far from what we've done in the past, but we always try to add a little more spices to the pot. It's just something we haven't done in the past. ( Jagged Edge)
• Teddy Barnes: Did your mother ever wash your mouth out with soap and water? Sam Ransom: Yeah, but it didn't do any ****ing good. ( Jagged Edge)
• Thomas Krasny: He told you, didn't he? *He* told you! What did he do? Did he phone you? Send you anonymous notes? Teddy Barnes: You'll stop at nothing, won't you? Anyone could've sent those notes; everyone knew - the police in Santa Cruz knew, people in your office knew! Thomas Krasny: *Bull****!* Don't you understand what he did? He did the *identical crime* eighteen months before he murdered his wife! He knew it would get him off the hook! He knew Bobby Slade was seeing his wife! That's why he did the first crime in Santa Cruz! He threw us Bobby Slade as a suspect! He picked that woman very carefully! He knew she played tennis with Slade! He planned this for *eighteen months!* He is *not* a psychopath! He is a *iceman.* He is a *monster.* ( Jagged Edge)
• The guy had a rap sheet as long as Author Unknown in Jagged Edge my dick. ( Jagged Edge)
• The guy had a rap sheet as long as my dick. ( Jagged Edge)
• Yeah, I won on The Apollo three times, and the third time I won I met Kaygee [former member of Naughty by Nature,] and he said I didn't have to go back no more. So I never went back. ( Jaheim)
• I went out and I recorded a song in the studio, some Isley Brothers songs, recorded all their hit sides. ( Jaheim)
• I recorded a Luther Vandross cut messing with this group called YBG, and we went out, we recorded it. ( Jaheim)
• From there I just started shopping that, started getting a lot of breaks: Showtime at the Apollo, a lot of talent shows, opening up for a lot of groups out there, you know, and here I am now. ( Jaheim)
• Ghetto is a beautiful thing. If you look at "Fabulous" the video, that's everything that's in the ghetto. ( Jaheim)
• A lot of those people didn't have homes, or didn't have none of the beautiful things that a lot of the people on tv have or that you see in those videos. But some people are content within and are willing to live within their means. ( Jaheim)
• I grew up on welfare and stuff like that, so I mean.. cause somebody might eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.. and then you talking, got a little milk in your hand or whatever.. then to say "that's ghetto." (laughs) But there is certain things that you love about that stuff. ( Jaheim)
• This album right here Still Ghetto.. ( Jaheim)
• I was reading something in a magazine and they was saying that they don't like the word ghetto because when you first look at ghetto it's like something that you walk on.. ( Jaheim)
• I want to clean this up. What was they saying about this ghetto thing.. it wasn't good. ( Jaheim)
• Absolutely, I love working with new artists and creative people, different people can provide such different musical ideas - life is too short not to experiment. ( Jamelia)
• When I was 12, my dad bought me a karaoke machine for my birthday and I'd make these karaoke tapes. When I was 15, my cousin took one of these tapes into a record label. The guy asked me for a meeting the next day. ( Jamelia)
• Yeah, I have been through a lot, I've been in the music business since I was 15 and I now feel ready to make a lot of dreams come true. ( Jamelia)
• The song has really had an impact on people and I am so pleased that it has got such wide radio and TV coverage. ( Jamelia)
• The lyrics are very personal and if they can have an impact on somebody in a similar situation then that will mean more to me than chart success. ( Jamelia)
• Lemar is absolutely incredible-I think he could sing ba ba black sheep and I would nearly faint. ( Jamelia)
• I just kept forgetting the words. I wanted to cry. My boyfriend Darren was giving me grief, telling me to hurry up as he was missing the Arsenal game. ( Jamelia)
• I love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like "Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?" But I never get chatted up. ( Jamelia)
• I'm not easy, but eight times out of ten I'll give a guy my mobile number. ( Jamelia)
• I have been through a lot, I've been in the music business since I was 15 and I now feel ready to make a lot of dreams come true. ( Jamelia)
• At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country. (Jeyms Monroe)
• By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry. (Jeyms Monroe)
• By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana. (Jeyms Monroe)
• I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis. (Jeyms Monroe)
• If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy. (Jeyms Monroe)
• It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. (Jeyms Monroe)
• National honor is the national property of the highest value. (Jeyms Monroe)
• Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete. (Jeyms Monroe)
• Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session. (Jeyms Monroe)
• The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination. (Jeyms Monroe)
• Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. (Jeyms Monroe)
• The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation. (Jeyms Monroe)
• The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation. (Jeyms Monroe)
• The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong. (Jeyms Monroe)
• The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. (Jeyms Monroe)
• All audiences should be slightly off balance. (Richard John Thompson)
• Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise. (Richard John Thompson)
• As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. (Richard John Thompson)
• But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there. (Richard John Thompson)
• I have to remind myself not to set boundaries. (Richard John Thompson)
• I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. (Richard John Thompson)
• I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself. (Richard John Thompson)
• I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. (Richard John Thompson)
• I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do. (Richard John Thompson)
• I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled. (Richard John Thompson)
• I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action. (Richard John Thompson)
• I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing. (Richard John Thompson)
• I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible. (Richard John Thompson)
• I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. (Richard John Thompson)
• It's amazing what some people read into songs. (Richard John Thompson)
• It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. (Richard John Thompson)
• People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences. (Richard John Thompson)
• The best thing you've got going for you is individuality. (Richard John Thompson)
• The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records. (Richard John Thompson)
• There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now. (Richard John Thompson)
• To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. (Richard John Thompson)
• Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. (Richard John Thompson)
• What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it. (Richard John Thompson)
• When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it. (Richard John Thompson)
• You want the audience to be uncomfortable. (Richard John Thompson)
• All audiences should be slightly off balance. (Richard John Thompson)
• You will continue to strive to take part in constructive and creative activities to make this a better world to live in, so that when we move on, we shall have left behind a better world for those who follow. You will consider the whole of humanity, depending on their ages, as fathers or mothers, brothers or sisters, sons or daughters. You are a superior human being; you have greater understanding, compassion, and patience with others. (Jose Silva)
• May the rest of your life, be the best of your life. (Jose Silva)
• To qualify as humans we must take part in humanitarian acts. (Jose Silva)
• A human is not one who looks like one, it is one who acts like one. (Jose Silva)
• The condensed version of the Bible: Do to others only what you want others to do to you. (Jose Silva)
• We do not want to gain at someone else's loss; we want to gain while helping the other person to also gain. (Jose Silva)
• If you want a million dollars, then first give 10 million dollars in service to humanity, and then if you need a million dollars, you'll get it... not because you want it, but because you need it. (Jose Silva)
• How much help you get, from higher intelligence, depends on how big your plans are. The bigger your plans are - meaning... how many people will benefit - the more help you will qualify for. (Jose Silva)
• If you are asking for a million dollars and you already have a million dollars, or if you are asking for a girlfriend when you already have a wife, or vice versa, you are not going to get any help from higher intelligence; you are on your own. (Jose Silva)
• The greatest discovery you'll ever make, is the potential of your own mind. (Jose Silva)
• The discovery that human intelligence can learn to function, with awareness, at altered levels of mind, will go down in history as the greatest discovery of man. It is sure to change our concepts of psychology, psychiatry, mind, and the subconscious. (Jose Silva)
• There is no such thing as a problem without a solution, only problems for which we do not yet have enough information to know what the solution is. When you have enough information, it is easy to solve a problem. (Jose Silva)
• Ignorance doesn't exempt us from suffering. Knowledge exempts us from suffering. (Jose Silva)
• We don't batter down doors. If you keep encountering obstacles, then back up and look around, you might see another door that will open easily for you. (Jose Silva)
• We don't break the laws of physics. Laws don't break... people do. If you are ignorant of the law of gravity and jump off a building, you are going to suffer as a result. (Jose Silva)
• Ignorance causes suffering. If you are ignorant of the law of gravity and jump off a building, you are going to suffer as a result. (Jose Silva)
• A spontaneous event with detrimental end results is an accident. A series of accidents tells us that we're doing something wrong. Either we are not getting divine guidance, or we are being advised that we are going in the wrong direction. A spontaneous event with beneficial end results is a coincidence. This could be good luck, or it could be divine guidance. How can we be sure that it is divine guidance? A series of coincidences on the same subject is surely divine intervention. Nobody working on their own is lucky every time. Divine intervention is what is known as God helping without showing His hand. (Jose Silva)
• Love one another means to help one another. (Jose Silva)
• At beta we prey on each other; at alpha we pray for one another. (Jose Silva)
• The real reality and the truthful truth when applied solve problems. (Jose Silva)
• Coincidence is an act of God. (Jose Silva)
• Do not ask for more than what you need, but do ask for no less than what you need. (Jose Silva)
• On the importance is using both Beta and Alpha: "We don't want to be mental giants and physical midgets; we want to be giants in both dimensions. (Jose Silva)
• Religion should enhance the spiritual factor that separates the human from being a common beast. It is through the spiritual facto that we recognize our association with our Creator, God. (Jose Silva)
• All religions are good because they appear to be doing their best at enhancing the spiritual factor of the human being. The only thing that we need to watch out for is their representatives. (Jose Silva)
• All religions are roads to the same God, whether we believe it or not. (Jose Silva)
• The Creator is a Creator, not a destroyer. (Jose Silva)
• Being a collector of insights is not sufficient; utilizing insights for the betterment of self and humanity are more worthwhile projects. (Jose Silva)
• If you want to excel you've got to study hard, become a student of the game. I love the combination of trying to do well on the field and in class, having to juggle both responsibilities.” (Alex Miller)
• It's a good view. We can just relax up here. (Alex Miller)
• There are no accidents without intentions. (Alex Miller)
• It was just fun for me to be out there playing defense and contributing to our win. It's a big win for us. (Alex Miller)
• I have to pinch myself today to think that I actually am a part owner of this business. (Alex Miller)
• What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until the work is finished... It is as if the picture paints itself through us, the story tells itself through us, has a larger existence of which we know nothing. (Alex Miller)

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