Pharrell Williams Quotes
I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.
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I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora's 'Runaway' music video. Something inside me clicked, like, 'That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.'
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Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
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I learned you're going to have to start from the ground up, and honestly, it starts with hard work, hard work in the offseason, and no shortcuts really.
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I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.
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I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
