Linda Perry Quotes
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.
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Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
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When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
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FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.
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Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.
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I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.
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The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
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I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
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I love just helping people; that's what I'm good at.
