Nile Rodgers Quotes
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.
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We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
