Nile Rodgers Quotes
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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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 never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.
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The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you can imagine. Just to sing it with a good voice is not enough: it asks tears from your soul. I am very emotional on stage, and the music is so tender that I suffer for real when I am singing it. So I cannot do many performances.
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All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.
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It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
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Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
