Linda Perry Quotes
People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.
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No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.
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With respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues on that or the legal memos that subsequently came out until the summer, sometime in 2004, when there started to be news reports on that.
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Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
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It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
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They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.
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People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
