Nile Rodgers Quotes
I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I don't drink coffee.
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We have an energy about us that's so unique and so intense, and it's because of how much power we have in us as individuals, being confident, harnessing that power, and wanting to share that with other women.
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I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.
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Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.
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There's a crazy energy in Toronto. I think some of that may be from being a border from where I'm from and being so close.
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I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
