Chuck Berry Quotes
The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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To me, true style icons have been few and far between. Elizabeth Taylor comes to mind. I never got to meet her while she was alive, but she is one of those people I have always admired in terms of her sense of style.
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There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.
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At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.
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I don't give a damn about the money. I earn my living well enough.
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Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.
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The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.
