John Whiting Quotes
That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, and we're not maximizing the use of our forces to best efficiency
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, and we're not maximizing the use of our forces to best efficiency
