Charles H. Kraft Quotes
God has set certain limitations on Himself by giving to humans and, apparently, to angels a certain amount of autonomy that we can use, if we choose, even to oppose the One who gives it to us.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
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If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
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About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.
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I started one of the first online video companies way back in 2003.
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I have nothing to do with counting the votes.
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The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
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I don't think I've ever done a real mini-series, but I love doing film first and foremost.
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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
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While we lie tumbling in the hay.
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Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.
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God has set certain limitations on Himself by giving to humans and, apparently, to angels a certain amount of autonomy that we can use, if we choose, even to oppose the One who gives it to us.
