William Lyon Phelps Quotes
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
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Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.
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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
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Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.
