Jeffrey Tate Quotes
If people had told me that I would have the stamina to conduct 'Ring Cycles,' I would have been amazed. I still am.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.
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People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.
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Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.
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If people had told me that I would have the stamina to conduct 'Ring Cycles,' I would have been amazed. I still am.
