Newton Lee Quotes
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I want to play interesting women.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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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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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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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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A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
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Compromise, hell! That's what happened to us all down the line - and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
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When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Terrorism is metastasizing like cancer in the global body of humanity.
