Nile Rodgers Quotes
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
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With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
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We heard that girls who had left to get married were being deported with their husbands. A girl who had a love affair with a French prisoner was sent to a concentration camp, and the Frenchman was executed.
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In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
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I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book.
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This transaction, along with other progress GM has been making on its turnaround plan, is an important milestone.
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I've always been fairly confident in my acting.
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I wouldn't know how to retire.
