Randy Newman Quotes
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.
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I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play, I don't need to go too far.
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What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it.
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The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
