Tommy James Quotes
I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything else. For some reason, staccato eighth notes on a bass sounded like bubblegum. Basically, groups like the 1910 Fruitgum Co. took my early format and kind of perverted it, and made these mindless pre-fab hits over and over. In the 60s, anybody who was making commercial music, that is music that didn't have a political slant to it, or wasn't taking drugs, was bubblegum. And that term kind of hung on a lot of people back then, and it's unfortunate.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
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You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.
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I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.
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I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything else. For some reason, staccato eighth notes on a bass sounded like bubblegum. Basically, groups like the 1910 Fruitgum Co. took my early format and kind of perverted it, and made these mindless pre-fab hits over and over. In the 60s, anybody who was making commercial music, that is music that didn't have a political slant to it, or wasn't taking drugs, was bubblegum. And that term kind of hung on a lot of people back then, and it's unfortunate.
