Lenny Kravitz Quotes
If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I was tested against the best.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
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I've really tried to use the power of film to effect change.
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In der Jugend lernt, im Alter versteht man.
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I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested I was in the possibilities in writing a poetry that applied formal and substantive options of narrative and non-narrative, lyric and non-lyric. I found many pleasures in this kind of writing. The long poem is as old as the art form.
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If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
