Nile Rodgers Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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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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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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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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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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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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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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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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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
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We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.
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Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.
