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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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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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 missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
