Andrew Loog Oldham Quotes
The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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I don't think that the trickle-down theory of diversity ever really works.
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I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.
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The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.
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I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.
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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.
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I used to run about two miles every day, but now with 'Dancing With the Stars,' the running is over.
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We soothe newborns, but parents soon start teaching their children to tolerate higher levels of arousal, a job that is often assigned to fathers. (I once heard the psychologist John Gottman say, “Mothers stroke, and fathers poke.”) Learning how to manage arousal is a key life skill, and parents must do it for babies before babies can do it for themselves. If that gnawing sensation in his belly makes a baby cry, the breast or bottle arrives. If he’s scared, someone holds and rocks him until he calms down. If his bowels erupt, someone comes to make him clean and dry. Associating intense sensations with safety, comfort, and mastery is the foundation of self-regulation, self-soothing, and self-nurture, a theme to which I return throughout this book.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.
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The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.
