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I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.
Ziggy Marley
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Ziggy Marley
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 17
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Musician
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Songwriter
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Kingston
Jamaica
David Nesta Marley
David Marley
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Father
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Feels
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I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
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I'm into anything that really helps children.
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Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.
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Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.
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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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Success to me does not mean money.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.
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The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.
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Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.
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In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
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The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.
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