Nile Rodgers Quotes
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room. Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing. Maybe they're not as tough or as cool as they want to be.
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Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.
