"Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate."

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Source : "Phil Ramone Looks Back at His Legendary Career in Expansive 1996 Billboard Interview". Interview with Paul Verna, www.billboard.com. 1996.

Phil Ramone

#Rudeness Quotes #Tolerate Quotes

“You have a good life when there are things to smile about today...and to motivate you for tomorrow.”
“You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.”
“While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.”
“To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.”
“I still go to that church now, and they don't believe in instruments in the church. But, my brothers and sisters in the church will listen to me. They will come out to a place to see me play. They will buy all of my records and everything, but they don't believe in bringing that instrument in the church. But, they'll come and watch me somewhere else. Why that is, I don't know.”
“But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.”
“The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.”
“I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.”

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