Walt Whitman Quotes
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.
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Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
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Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.
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It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
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Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
