Babyface (Kenneth Brian Edmonds) Quotes
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.
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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?
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The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
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Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.
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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
