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 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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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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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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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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People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'
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Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.
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People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.
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I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.
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There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.
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If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.
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My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
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I like the Wu Tang Clan a lot.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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I think a lot of people feel like they still have something to prove, because when you get in and you're chasing success, you always feel like you have something to prove. But at this point, I feel like an underdog, and I actually like being in that position.
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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.
