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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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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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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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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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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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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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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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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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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The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.
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I'm such a dog person. I dunno, I just feel like it really enriches your life, to have something to care for.
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My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.
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The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'
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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.
