Nile Rodgers Quotes
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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No ally or adversary should ever doubt our strength and our resolve.
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The writer does not get from his work as he writes and reads it the same aesthetic shock that the reader does; and since the writer is so accustomed to reading other stories, and having them produce a decided effect upon him, he is disquieted at not being equally affected by his own.
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I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.
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The emergence of civilization has everywhere followed a definable sequence.
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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
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If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.
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To leave this building empty-handed is unbelievable. I feel very sorry for my players.
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I go to dinner with my friends, and we're like, 'Let's put our phones on airplane mode so we can really enjoy each other's company.'
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The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
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I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.
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I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.
