Linda Perry Quotes
'American Idol' is a machine. It's a machine that's making a lot of money, that's selling a lot of product. It's 'American Marketing.'
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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To be is to do.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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I was taught that pain is bad.
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
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'American Idol' is a machine. It's a machine that's making a lot of money, that's selling a lot of product. It's 'American Marketing.'
