Bernie Worrell Quotes
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.
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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
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You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
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My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.
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Personally, I wouldn't mind going on stage naked, totally naked.
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Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
