Mike Stoller Quotes
As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'
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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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I had a twin, and he didn't make it.
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I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they're too smart, especially in the sciences - 'No one will date them. They won't be popular.' - don't apply to boys. The boys are being encouraged.
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Benzema is a great striker who I think is a superstar.
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If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.
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Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.
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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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You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.
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I used to diet all the time as a kid. I started dieting in, like, kindergarten. I don't recommend it, but I also don't judge people who want to do things with their body.
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As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
