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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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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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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What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
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The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
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When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.
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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.
