Bootsy Collins Quotes
But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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I have made more money than I ever thought anybody should ever make. But who cares if you're worth $500 million or $1 billion? That is not what I want to be remembered for, but for giving something back.
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But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
