William Wrigley, Jr. Quotes
Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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Custom is second nature.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
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Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.
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Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
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All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
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Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.
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Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.
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With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.
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I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.
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I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.
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Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.
