Bill Haley Quotes
We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
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Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
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Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
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Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.
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I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I know music. I grew up in Philly; it's a very musical city. My house was full of music.
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It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.
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We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.
