Robert Palmer Quotes
I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.
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One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.
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Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.
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If racial minorities, sexual minorities, feminists both male and female, hell, all liberals got together and had this big 'too much information,' 'go there,' voice...that would equal power. And that power would equal change. And that change would equal a revolution.
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I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.
