Bruno Mars Quotes
Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
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People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.
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We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species.
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Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
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I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally, the new immunology was born.
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I'm the kind of player who is never satisfied on the pitch. If I score twice, I'm already thinking about getting a third one.
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Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.
