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.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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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.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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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.
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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.
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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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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.
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I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.
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I am really bad with cleaning my closet.
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My musical career was an accident.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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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.
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Finding a good kid actor is like finding a needle in a massive haystack.
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The public trusts big data way too much.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
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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.
