Lamont Dozier Quotes
We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions.
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Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'
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We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
