Belinda Johnson Quotes
When I think back to the early years of my career, I wish I would have been less tolerant of the norms of that time. Compared to today's generation, my generation didn't call attention to unfair practices like equal pay and promotion tracks as often.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I got no hate in me.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
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Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
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It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much.
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I read a lot of history, and I know that once upon a time, a coin was worth $5 if it had $5 worth of gold in it. Now we have paper that is just backed by fiat... Maybe in the new world, something gets backed by consensus.
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I got into the business because I love writing. When it came down to finding my voice, which every writer has to take time to do, I think I realized I write black people very well. I write us in a very honest way, and I want to hear the way we really talk.
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When I think back to the early years of my career, I wish I would have been less tolerant of the norms of that time. Compared to today's generation, my generation didn't call attention to unfair practices like equal pay and promotion tracks as often.
