Raphael Saadiq Quotes
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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Piano is like drudgery.
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I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.
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The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.
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They're waiting for what the government has to say rather than what the national project has to say.
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An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
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In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
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The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.
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Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.
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When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.
