Nile Rodgers Quotes
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.
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Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
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For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.
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Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.
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Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
