BJ the Chicago Kid Quotes
I can't be Stevie Wonder; I can't be Marvin Gaye, but I can be the foundation that I think withholds that mold.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.
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For me, it was important Wonder Woman wouldn't be a Goody Two-Shoes. She has a little bit of attitude, and when she fights, she has a smirk on her face. I didn't want her to be polished. I want people to relate to her.
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Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
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I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
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As far as plans go, I never want to make any plans for my life, keeping to schedules. Obviously in reality, you have to do it to a certain extent, but this whole business we’re involved with is art to me. It’s making a nice piece of art. People expect you to turn on and turn off and fit into schedules and it’s a load of bollocks.
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I can't be Stevie Wonder; I can't be Marvin Gaye, but I can be the foundation that I think withholds that mold.
