"The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet."

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Source : "Randy Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2011.

Randy Jackson

#Stars Quotes #Puppets Quotes #Programming Quotes

“Now I'm taking some classes, I'm going to school for film, and I think I'm going to end up back in the industry in one capacity or another. I'm not sure where just yet. I kind of stepped away from it for a few years. I thought I was done with it. But I grew up in it. It's such a big part of my life.”
“Always desire to learn something useful”
“It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.81, The New Press
“I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.”
“I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.”
“I think it's important for us to allow ourselves to be in creative bubble when you really need to finish something. You can always re enter the world after, once you feel like you're done with it.”
“All human activity is prompted by desire.”
“The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.”

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