Nile Rodgers Quotes
I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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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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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people.
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It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.
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I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal.
