Joe Gibbs Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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I like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways.
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Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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I see a lot of the young comedians think it is clever to use foul language and they think it is funny. It isn’t.
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I'm always trying to mentor young women. I speak on college campuses and I have events in my own studio where I open it up to women's groups to learn. I feel really strongly about it.
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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
