Rick Rubin Quotes

I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.

Rick Rubin

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Mission

• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Care

• There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Book

• When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Like

• So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn't quite as great.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Different
  • Business

• With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Before
  • U.S.
  • Guess

• Brittany can hardly claim the attention of the tourist as a superlatively beautiful country. The way in which trees are clipped and tortured out of shape disfigures the sylvan landscape; and of mountain scenery, there is none.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Attention

• Fighting is one of those things that gets tons of attention, far more than it deserves.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Attention
  • Fighting
  • Far

• It's very exciting to be able to just work in this business, let alone on stuff you are extremely proud of. So it does make me a little nervous, because 'Breaking Bad' is so special. It's great being part of something so great because people pay attention to you, hopefully because you're doing good work.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• A woman should dress to attract attention. To attract the most attention, a woman should either be nude or wearing something as expensive as getting her nude is going to be.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Attention

• We wince at the brutality of parents who ship their young kids around to perform for adults at the expense of their childhood - but, then, that was Mozart’s childhood, and though by the end Mozart may have wished for less attention as a kid performer and more as a grownup composer, he never for a moment wished not to be Mozart.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • May
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Attention

• So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Bad
  • Attention

• It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Emotional

• Generally, I don't want to do things. I feel lazy and unmotivated. It's only when an idea grabs hold of me and I can't get rid of it, when I try not to think about it and yet it's ambushing me all the time. I'm thrown up against a wall. The idea is saying to me, "You have to pay attention to me because I am going to be the future of your life for the next year or two or five." Then I submit. I get into it. It's something that becomes so necessary to me that I can't live without doing that project.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Attention

• Ein Gedanke kann nicht erwachen, ohne andere zu wecken.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

• The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

  

  Sushmita Banerjee
  • Past
  • Barbaric
  • Backwardness

• I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Museums
  • Furniture

• There are essentially two main reasons to hold a phone up at a show. First, to capture a memory for yourself, a reminder of the moment you're enjoying. And second, to share that moment with someone - to express your emotions socially. Both seem perfectly legitimate to me.

  

  John Battelle
  • Up

• I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Attention
  • Guess