Kevin Bacon Quotes
Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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Stop threatening to kill people on Twitter because you don't like what they are saying!
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Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
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Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.
