Faith Evans Quotes
My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
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I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.
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When you do comedy, the audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say. Sometimes you're not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn't mean it's not funny. It means you haven't explored it enough. I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
