"I was in California the first time I heard Michael Jackson wanted to record with me. I was, like, 'Nah, no way, he's too big, it can't be true.' Then I got a call from Michael's people at my hotel telling me he was interested. But I still wasn't believing it - I thought they were setting me up for a TV practical jokes show."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that.”
“My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.”
“I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you get.”

Source : "Questions to Stella and Judd". Interview with Bruce Glaser, www.artnews.com. September 1966.
“What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.”
“A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.129, Random House
“There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.”
“Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.”

Source : "The American Dream belongs to all of us". Interview with Suzanne Malveaux, edition.cnn.com. September 6, 2012.

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