Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (Kenny G) Quotes
Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
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There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.
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The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
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If a play does anything either tragically or comically satirically or farcically - to explain to me why I am alive, it is a good play. If it seems unaware that such questions exist, I tend to suspect that it's a bad one.
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Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.
