Flea Quotes
I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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It's such an enormously challenging process to make any kind of television. It's stressful and works towards getting the best out of creative people.
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I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.
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I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.
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I've always loved to incorporate music into acting because I have a passion for both.
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I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.
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I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.
