Rick Rubin Quotes
I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
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There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.
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The true wealth of a nation consists not in the stored- up gold but in the intellectual and physical strength of its people.
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You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
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I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.
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Play as much as you can as often as you can with as many people as you can. That's how you learn and grow.
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The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'
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When people come to my shows, they're like, 'I can't believe you can actually freaking sing!'
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I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'
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I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on time and always have an album out. They don't have actual lives, in my opinion. I feel like I'm so much more than being famous and meeting a musical quota. And I don't know, just the weight of the scrutiny and attention is too weird for me.
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You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.
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We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.
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I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.
