Artie Shaw Quotes
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.
Quotes to Explore
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Whether you are pro-choice or strongly pro-life, as I am, there should be common ground that abortion ceases to be an option when a baby can live outside the mother's womb or experience excruciating pain from a procedure.
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Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.
