John Baizley (John Dyer Baizley) Quotes
If I'm in the business of making artwork that is designed on some level to sell a product, then I have to be very comfortable with the people I'm working with and I'd like to be proud of the end result regardless of its sale-ability.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.
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I like jokes, but Ray and I, we never did jokes. We weren't in that line of humor. We each contributed our own kind of observations. I'm glad to have people look at and laugh at and respect and get some creative juice out of what we did by observing.
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I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
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People are getting patents on things that are too general.
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You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.
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No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.
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If I'm in the business of making artwork that is designed on some level to sell a product, then I have to be very comfortable with the people I'm working with and I'd like to be proud of the end result regardless of its sale-ability.
