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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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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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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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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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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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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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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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.
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The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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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.
