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.

Kenneth Bruce Gorelick

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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.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Young

• Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Dancing
  • Last
  • Sponsor

• 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.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Successful
  • Run
  • Content

• 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.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Age
  • Alone
  • Focus

• War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Up
  • War
  • Gun

• By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • World
  • London

• 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.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Family
  • Problem
  • Racism

• 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.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Hobby

• We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • People
  • Stage
  • Lucky

• Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Long
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Age
  • Violence

• I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Always
  • Things
  • Magazines

• People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Kind
  • Direction

• 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.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • Country
  • Food

• Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • Man

• If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.

  

  Kimi Raikkonen
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.

  

  Bill Irwin
  • Home
  • Job
  • Mother

• When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Mathematics
  • Tools
  • Mechanics

• There is growing demand for renewable energy.

  

  Lynn Good
  • Energy
  • Growing

• A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Giving
  • Alive
  • Ordinary

• Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick