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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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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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
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I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
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Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.
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My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.
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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.
