Babyface (Kenneth Brian Edmonds) Quotes

I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.

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• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Talk
  • Been
  • Tax

• The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Up
  • Control
  • Audience

• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Hearing
  • Suffered
  • Ear

• I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Job
  • Fun

• I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Watching
  • Bull

• For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • Down

• I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • May
  • Society
  • Simple

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Will

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• I'm a political conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Conservative

• I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Today

• My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Family
  • Gay
  • Tree

• I have one quote I very often read to myself, from a very good friend: 'Forget the people around you now; remember the little boy who was racing in go-karts, what you were dreaming of and what he wanted to achieve one day and what was his goal. Race for him.'. I fell in love with the sport, I love racing. The amount of satisfaction I get just going around in a Formula 1 car makes me smile. So if it is a bad day then you tend to come out and say it's horrible and you don't enjoy. But if you had to pick between that and doing nothing, you would always pick that.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • People
  • Dream
  • Sports

• God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

  

  Rumi
  • Desire
  • Snakes
  • Pit

• I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Pretty
  • Independent
  • Lawyer

• I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Song
  • Listening