Kelis Rogers (Kelis) Quotes
In food, it's really, like, either you're right, or you're wrong. You know, people's taste buds kind of vary, but there's a technique. Either you do it right, or you don't.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.
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Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
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I've always been really internally focused. I tend to focus on hiring - ensuring that every person we hire is both a really good fit and really good - and also that everything we put out to our users is very high-quality.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.
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In food, it's really, like, either you're right, or you're wrong. You know, people's taste buds kind of vary, but there's a technique. Either you do it right, or you don't.
