Nile Rodgers Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
-
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
-
I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
-
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
-
To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
-
I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
-
I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
-
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
-
I don't weigh into politics.
-
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
-
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
-
Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
-
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
-
You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
-
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
-
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
-
I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'
-
They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.
-
While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
-
Dick Cheney and Al Gore have redefined the role of the vice president in the minds of the public. It should be a big job, beyond simply checking the health status of the president.
-
I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.
-
Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.
-
My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'
