Lee Daniels Quotes
I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
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The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.
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At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.
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The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.
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What's in my pocket?You never knewYou didn't know me wellSo well, as I knew you
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I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
