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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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'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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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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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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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.
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With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.
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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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We no longer have a coherent conception of ourselves, and our universe, and our relation to one another and our world. We no longer know, as the Middle Ages did, where we come from, and where we are going, or why. That is, we don't know what information is relevant, and what information is irrelevant to our lives.
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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.
