Max von Essen Quotes
If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.
