Sylvia (Sylvia Robinson) Quotes
As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you called it rap.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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I love the '60s - that's my comfort zone as far as dressing goes.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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I feel for the players.
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.
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As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you called it rap.
