Bruno Mars Quotes
Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
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I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.
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In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of the ladder: from the lowliest assistant to a powerful man in the world of media.
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Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.
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Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.
