Rick Rubin Quotes
I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
-
I think punditry serves no purpose.
-
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
-
China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
-
I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
-
I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
-
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
-
I am really bad with cleaning my closet.
-
My musical career was an accident.
-
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
-
Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
-
I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.
-
The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
-
Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
-
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
-
I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.
-
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
-
If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.
-
I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.
