Charles Kettering Quotes
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'
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As people do a task, they improve at it.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I became very attentive to customers because I was desperate not to have people leave and never come back.
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I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
