Newton Lee Quotes
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
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What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
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Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.
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Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
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You have yourself to blame.
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I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!
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'Ridin' up in them GTO's and 4-4-2's, Grand Prix's, S.S's, causes we so so cool'
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.
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It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff.
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Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.
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Terrorism is metastasizing like cancer in the global body of humanity.
