Joe Goddard Quotes
There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
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The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
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At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
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I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.
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Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
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A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.
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[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.
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There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.
