Gene Chandler Quotes
Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.
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Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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The world is me and I am the world.
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I can't always live my life for everybody else.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.
