Willie Dixon Quotes
I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.
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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
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I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.
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I've been back to the Kansas City area a lot in the past. My sisters went to college in the area. My brother went to college in the area. I've got friends there, so there's some ties to the area.
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I call my music ho-wop. It's the flavor of hip-hop, the flavor of doo-wop, and hoes.
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I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
