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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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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Too many spend too much time trying to live in a fixed point, when our lives are an unfolding journey. Taking on new challenges is how we fix the world.
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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
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All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!
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Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
