Geoffrey Beene Quotes
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It's those damn critics again.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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The I is the soul, which endures.
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Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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I couldn't believe it when Penguin offered me the chance to publish a book.
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Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.
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I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.