Nile Rodgers Quotes
What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.
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Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.
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Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.
