Dr. Dre (Andre Romelle Young) Quotes
I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?
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Imperfection is perfection.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.
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Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.
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We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.
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I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?
