Nile Rodgers Quotes

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

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• All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Guy
  • Community
  • Star

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Good
  • Communication
  • Obscure

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Impossible

• Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • May
  • Age
  • Golden

• There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Great
  • America
  • Suffering

• I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Business
  • Care

• I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Enough
  • Books

• The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Believe
  • History

• Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Beauty
  • Mirror
  • Hours

• I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Experience
  • Doing
  • Ugly

• No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Home
  • Think
  • Like

• When God comes A great noise will pierce us, The day of judgment terribly. Messengers from the door, Wind, and sea, and fire. lightning and thunder A number without flattery. The people of the world groaning Will be concealed.

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, 'It's a shame that he has to die.' And Jesus is saying, 'Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!!'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Die
  • Jesus

• The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men

• For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Life
  • Unity

• I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • Up
  • Time

• When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• I'm supportive of anyone, male or female, feeling good about themselves.

  

  Brooke Elliott
  • Good
  • Feeling

• I think when people think of Compton, of course, they always think of gangster rap. But if you ever had an opportunity to go to Compton, you would know that Compton is a beautiful city.

  

  Aja Brown
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

  

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