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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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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'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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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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I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
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I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.
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The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like Chris Kimsington.
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I think therapy can be very revealing and useful for actors. You start to dig deep and understand certain mechanisms that you hadn't been aware of before and, you know, meanings behind things.
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There's a reason why every successful person in Hollywood has like seven or eight projects up in the air at any point. It's like a 90 percent chance for each project that it'll never happen. Every project has about a 10 percent chance of getting made, unless you're like a Quentin Tarantino or somebody who just gets whatever they want to get done. But those are the rare cases.
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Terrorism is metastasizing like cancer in the global body of humanity.
