Breakfast Club Quotes
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It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
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There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
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Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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Figure out who you are.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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I'm still true to my Southern roots.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.