Dr. Dre (Andre Romelle Young) Quotes

The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.

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• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
  • High

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Now
  • Talking
  • Numbers

• I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • New

• I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • People
  • Life
  • Worry

• One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Jump
  • Restraint
  • Cliff

• Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • Customer

• Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Political
  • Gun
  • Terrorism

• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • War
  • Democracy

• As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

  

  Fay Wray
  • Book
  • Advice
  • Same

• The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Long
  • Home
  • History

• Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Learning

• I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Girl
  • Designer
  • Label

• I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Find

• I'm really happy in my own skin.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Happy
  • Own
  • My Own

• Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • Most
  • Filmmaking
  • Narrative

• There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Question

• My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

  

  Earl Stevens
  • Ifs
  • Known
  • Rapper

• Comic Con has become a very relevant venue for all films.

  

  Jon Favreau

• When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.

  

  Odd Nerdrum
  • Success
  • Artist
  • Study

• I was in awe of my father. His generosity was beyond anything I ever could imagine. The reason I say he's like Don Corleone is he was always breaking off hundreds. I'd be like, 'Hey Dad, I'm going to McDonald's with my friends,' and he'd just whip out a hundred: 'Here, go, have fun.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Father

• They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Wrestling
  • Strokes
  • Canvases

• The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.

  

  Dr. Dre