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.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Self
  • Reputation
  • Ourselves

• 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.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Church
  • Never
  • Hell

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Secret

• One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Family
  • Me
  • Humor

• It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Experience
  • Society
  • Knowledge

• I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Evil
  • Thought
  • TV

• Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Always
  • Breakfast

• If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Voting

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Work
  • She
  • Character

• We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Time
  • Like
  • Sound

• 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?'

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Wish

• It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

  

  Benjamin Graham

• I had a twin, and he didn't make it.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Twin

• I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Independent

• If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Everyone has a story.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Story
  • Everyone
  • Have

• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Today
  • Future
  • Present

• This country was formed for the white not for the black man. And looking upon African slavery from the same stand-point, as held by those noble framers of our Constitution, I for one, have ever considered it, one of the greatest blessings that God ever bestowed upon a favored nation.

  

  John Wilkes
  • Black
  • Blessings
  • Considered

• As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

  

  Mike Stoller
  • Black
  • Interest
  • Voices