Rick Rubin Quotes
I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me I don't wanna' wonder whether you care
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Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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You have to pace yourself. As a producer, you start with a concept and shepherd it through the script to the delivery of the film. It's a very long journey for an hour and 40 minutes of movie.
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Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.
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For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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Within the body there is played
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The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.
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Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
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I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.
