Steve Porcaro (Steven Maxwell Porcaro) Quotes
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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Girls run the world.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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'SNL' is one of those jobs where you are constantly reminded of how lucky you are and that you get to meet some of these people whose work you enjoy. Then you get to meet them, and they are just wonderful people. It turns out wonderfully, and you have a great conversation.
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The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
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I really appreciate comedy a lot.
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Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.
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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
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We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.
