Nile Rodgers Quotes

When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.

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  Ingrid Bergman
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• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
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• Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
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• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
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• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• Music is such a part of my soul.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Music
  • Soul
  • My Soul

• Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Will

• People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Free
  • English

• I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Different
  • Family
  • American

• It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

  Gary Larson
  • School
  • High
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• When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Way
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• A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Cool

• I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Music
  • Marriage
  • Picture

• I'm an actress, and I write, and I produce stuff. I have a guitar, and I have my knitting stuff. I have a lot of things going on; I love to not ever put all my energy into one thing fully.

  

  Krysten Ritter
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• I think music is best left for the listener to experience for themselves. My own description of it is only based on my own history, my own musical references and perspective. I like to avoid coloring things for people too much.

  

  Sarah Neufeld Arcade Fire
  • Music
  • Experience
  • History

• So far, the effects appear to be relatively modest on growth.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Growth
  • Effects
  • Modest

• In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Back
  • Blur

• In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • Real

• When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.

  

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  • Age