Nile Rodgers Quotes
I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.
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When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
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I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.
