John Gutfreund Quotes
I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I owe everything to France.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.
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I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
