Berry Gordy Quotes

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

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• I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

  

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• While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

  

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• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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• Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

  

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• There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
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• Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

  

  Pat Nixon
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• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  

  Garry Shandling
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• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
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• The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.

  

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• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
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• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
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• The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

  

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• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

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• I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

  

  Lev Grossman
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• I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
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• To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

  

  Dale Murphy
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• A lot of the shows relate to interrelationships and attitudes, again, always trying to do it within the context of a very entertaining show.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Trying

• Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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• Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

  

  Berry Gordy
  • People
  • Music
  • Black