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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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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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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Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
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I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from; I kind of like it.
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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.
