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.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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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.
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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!
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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?'
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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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.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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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.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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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.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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'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.
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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.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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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.
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I'm a political conservative.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.
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The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
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No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.
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I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.
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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.
