Groups Quotes - Page 21

• It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

  Alice Cooper

  People, This Generation, Rolling

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• And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

  Elvis Costello

  Writing, Opportunity, Years

  Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

  Simon Cowell

  Artist, Grew Up, Solo

  "Simon Cowell on One Direction's rise to stardom". Interview with Andy Greene, www.cnn.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

  Simon Cowell

  Kids, Artist, Thank God

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• It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity.

  Graham Coxon

  Thinking, People, Insecurity

  Interview with Designer Magazine, www.designermagazine.org.

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• In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Writing, Cutting

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.

  DMX

  Waiting, Columbia, Contracts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

  Roger Daltrey

  Pops, Rough, Edges

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• A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

  Bobby Darin

  Money, Business, Artist

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• When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

  Dorothy Day

  Spiritual, Reading, Night

  Dorothy Day, David Scott, Benedict J. Groeschel (2002). “Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day”, p.38, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

  Stockwell Day

  Knights, Use, Goes On

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Party, Sleep, People

  "The Booming Business of Ellen DeGeneres: From Broke and Banished to Daytime's Top Earner". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 22, 2012.

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• At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Years, Giving, Three

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• The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

  Jim DeMint

  Thinking, Organization, Ideas

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

  John Deacon

  Song, Writing, Albums

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• I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Senior, People, Juniors

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• I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

  Peter Diamandis

  Eight, Earth, May

  "Asteroid Impacts Over Russia - Another Larger Rock Passing Very Close to Earth" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.

  Junot Diaz

  Dream, New York, Growing Up

  "Junot Díaz Aims to Fulfill His Dream of Publishing Sci-Fi Novel With Monstro". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy", www.wired.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

  Janice Dickinson

  Book, Self, Bird

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• For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the 80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.

  Beth Ditto

  Eye, Gay, Way

  "In bed with Beth Ditto". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2011.

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• Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

  Larry Dixon

  Team, Winning, People

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• Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

  Novak Djokovic

  Country, Couple, Athlete

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• No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Real, People, Married

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• It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Reckless, Broads

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.589, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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