Babyface (Kenneth Brian Edmonds) Quotes
Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I've been going on Twitter every week going, 'Guys, you have to watch '2 Broke Girls' because it's incredible.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
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It's quite clear we've got strong franchises at the core of this company.
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In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.
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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
