Steven Tyler Quotes
Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care.
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There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.
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During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.
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Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.
