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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

Quotes by Jack Wild

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Quotes by Jack Kingston

'Donde Estaras,' it is like a classic reggaeton, and we just added some Southern spice to bring it to 2018. But I wanted to go back to the roots of reggaeton, that type of reggaeton that makes you just feel good. You don't know what we are saying but that OK because 'Donde Estas' is where are you at but 'Donde Estaras' is where are you going to be.

Quotes by J Balvin

I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.

Quotes by J Balvin

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Quotes by Ivan Turgenev

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

Quotes by Ivor Novello

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

Quotes by Ismail Merchant

Growing up playing the drums, I idolised Questlove from an early age. 'Phrenology' was the first Roots record that I ever heard, and that was like my introduction to hip hop.

Quotes by Isom Innis

My first game was against India and while my roots will always be Indian I was born in England and wanted to represent them.

Quotes by Isa Guha

Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.

Quotes by Ilan Stavans

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

Quotes by I. M. Pei

I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

Quotes by Hozier

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Quotes by Henning Mankell

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

Quotes by Harpo Marx

The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.

Quotes by Hans Adolf Krebs

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.

Quotes by GRiZ

My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.

Quotes by Gregory Hines

Like Hillary Clinton in the United States, Kuczynski is a prototypical member of the trans-American governing class, with deep roots in both the private and public sector and its revolving-door relationship between Washington think tanks, the State Department, and high-level Latin American ministries.

Quotes by Greg Grandin

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

Quotes by Graham Taylor

To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots.

Quotes by Gordon Brown

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Quotes by George Weinberg

I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

Quotes by George Shearing

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

Quotes by George Noory

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Quotes by George Herbert

The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.

Quotes by George Ayittey

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

Quotes by Geneva Carr

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

Quotes by Geezer Butler

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

Quotes by Garrett Hardin

I know where I come from and what my roots are.

Quotes by Gabriel Batistuta

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

Quotes by G. Willow Wilson

YouTube's a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment.

Quotes by Freddie Wong

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Quotes by Frank A. Clark

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

Quotes by Francois Gautier

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

Quotes by Flo Rida

I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.

Quotes by Finn Jones

We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.

Quotes by Felipe VI of Spain

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Quotes by Felix Adler

As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.

Quotes by F. Sionil Jose

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

Quotes by Evan Bayh

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

Quotes by Eugene Ionesco

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

Quotes by Erin Gray

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.

Quotes by Eric Clapton

It's just an honor to compete in New York, New Jersey, the tri-state area, where we're from. I have so much roots there, so much family.

Quotes by Enzo Amore

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

Quotes by Emmylou Harris

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

Quotes by Ellen Tauscher

I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

Quotes by Elizabeth Strout

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Quotes by Edward Steichen

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

Quotes by Edward Ruscha

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

Quotes by Edward James Olmos

You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

Quotes by Dustin Diamond

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

Quotes by Duncan Sheik

I feel like an eagle eye when I watch my fellow talent because I believe in grass roots, putting 100 percent in when the camera is on or not on.

Quotes by Drew McIntyre

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

Quotes by Douglas Coupland

I like the grass roots people the most.

Quotes by Doug Ford

The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.

Quotes by Don Kardong

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Quotes by Dolly Parton

Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.

Quotes by Dinaw Mengestu

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

Quotes by Diplo

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

Quotes by Dilshad Vadsaria

The Almighty has plans for us to make a place so we can go on and make a difference. It all has to do with my faith; I am deeply religious. It goes back to my roots, to my mom and my dad.

Quotes by Dikembe Mutombo

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

Quotes by Dikembe Mutombo

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

Quotes by Diane Paulus

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Quotes by Delmore Schwartz

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

Quotes by Deborah Moggach

I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there.

Quotes by Dawn Richard

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

Quotes by David Novak

I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years as the corporate secretary and friends with W. E. Upjohn.

Quotes by David Means

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

Quotes by David Miliband

'Roots' did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story.

Quotes by David L. Wolper

What prevailed was that it was a family story, so it didn't matter what the color. It was also the perfect subject matter for a miniseries: A best-selling book, a generational story, a social problem - they all made 'Roots' what a miniseries should be.

Quotes by David L. Wolper

We couldn't predict what would happen with 'Roots.' You knew there were powerful moments that were going to affect people. We were making the film while the book was being completed. We were fortunate because the hardcover book was out and on the best-seller list. The heat was still on.

Quotes by David L. Wolper

If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.

Quotes by David L. Wolper

My roots are documentaries.

Quotes by David L. Wolper

My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like 'Roots,' I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time.

Quotes by David L. Wolper

I've said in the primary race repeatedly that a Labour Party that I lead would be a true red Labour Party, be very clear about its social democratic roots and its social democratic agenda.

Quotes by David Cunliffe

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

Quotes by David Blunkett

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

Quotes by David Beckham

Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.

Quotes by David A. Bednar

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.

Quotes by Dave Haywood

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

Quotes by Danny Pino

I am proud of my Sindhi roots.

Quotes by Dalip Tahil

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama

I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

Quotes by Creed Bratton

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

Quotes by Craig Charles

What does it take to win in New Hampshire? Grass roots and financial resources.

Quotes by Corey Lewandowski

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Quotes by Compay Segundo

Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

Quotes by Conner Eldridge

I was 7 years old when 'Roots' was first broadcast, and my parents gathered all us kids around the TV to learn about how we got here. But it wasn't until I sat down and immersed myself in the research that I got the barest inkling of what it meant to be a slave.

Quotes by Colson Whitehead

I try to stay very, very true to my roots and my lifestyle and I wanted to be able to share that with my fans.

Quotes by Cody Simpson

My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.

Quotes by Clive Davis

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

Quotes by Clarice Lispector

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

Quotes by Cindy Sheehan

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

Quotes by Chuck D

I was always taught to be myself, be honest, and be true to my roots.

Quotes by Christina Tosi

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

Quotes by Chico Hamilton

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

Quotes by China Machado

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

Quotes by Cher Lloyd

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.

Quotes by Charlie Cox

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.

Quotes by Charles Lyell

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

Quotes by Celine Dion

The Premier League benefits from foreigners, and the game's evolved in a way that's beneficial, but you can't lose the roots of the English game.

Quotes by Cesar Azpilicueta

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