Vernon Jordan Quotes
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
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I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
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I know that I'm a role model for a lot of people, and I'd like to be. I know that there are people who probably don't agree with how I think or how I see myself and my place in this world. That's OK.
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Mum's the word.
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Terrorism is not new to black people.
