You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect.
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Related All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especi... RUBEN STUDDARD I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, ... MARGARET KEANE Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because e... AARON STANFORD Actually, for me, I really love to do action movie. You know, most people, they know, they thought t... LI BINGBING That?s what you come to expect from those guys. You know when things get tough Allan and Randy is go... DANTE CUNNINGHAM Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is?... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and... LAURA MVULA Hey, Clary. You take care of yourself," he said. "I know you can." He paused. "And take care of Jace... CASSANDRA CLARE Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t... ANTHONY BURGESS Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things loo... AUGUSTE RODIN We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. S... JACK BOWMAN Have you been watching American Idol? They have Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul judgin' the singin. Pau... CHRIS ROCK If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike S... WARREN G R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from t... BABYFACE Star kids always get an upper hand at the start of their career. People in the industry often know t... KRITI SANON If you were ever a ballerina, you know the pain: just to be able to look like it's all so light,... MICHELLE YEOH I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of the... JONATHAN LAPAGLIA Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they ap... DANE COOK They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but ... DAN RATHER People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports enter... STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN He showed no remorse, you know, even for crimes he admitted to doing. His eyes, you know, they were ... BOBBY HANNERS Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and... MOBY I don't think an artist should always know why they gravitate toward something or someone. You a... MICKALENE THOMAS Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that... D'ANGELO I know that our pharmacies were as prepared as they could have been for the Jan. 1 date. They were t... LINDSEY STEPHENS It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elem... ANNIE LENNOX But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b... TOM SELLECK Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their... ANTHONY BURGESS You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an ind... CHRIS COOPER We are thrilled to have her alongside -- or actually in between -- Randy and Simon. MIKE DARNELL The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the M... JOHN VARVATOS Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is.... MICHAEL VICK The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell ... JOE BIDEN You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you h... SOLANGE KNOWLES In 'The Matrix,' you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It's an ... DANIEL WU When talking to first-time entrepreneurs, I often ask them: 'How do you know that people want yo... KATHRYN MINSHEW People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwa... BILL IRWIN The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo a... JOHN MCENROE Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but ... BILL ENGVALL If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what the... ADAM GRANT The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ... TREVOR NOAH There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on ... TYLER PERRY As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on ou... GAVIN ROSSDALE You can go to Pinterest, and they'll get to know who your friends are, but they don't get to... ADAM D'ANGELO When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an... MISSY ELLIOTT So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to ... MAXWELL When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it ... KENNY LOGGINS In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had ... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the... E.M. FORSTER I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I tr... PHARRELL WILLIAMS Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he h... LUCY LIU In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had... RICK BARRY To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recog... SY MONTGOMERY Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shr... GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at lif... MIKE DITKA He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Denn... NATHAN LANE They call us loser’s but they also think that in order to make friend’s you have to be mean to p... DANIELLE D This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationshi... ROBERT PATTINSON A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they... SYLVIA BROWNE Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his... IRWIN WINKLER Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have '... WAYLON JENNINGS Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative o... DINAH SHORE Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance ... DENIS LEARY If you want to page me, It's OK! I've actually had guys tell me they were fans from the '... CHRISTINA MILIAN You know," he said, "I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it's mo... RAINBOW ROWELL There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why play... GORDIE HOWE Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's g... JAKE OWEN They're close, they are local - not national. When you have a question, often you are calling people... KAREN WALKER People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and the... DAVID SELBY Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally diff... RUBEN STUDDARD The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very -... CAB CALLOWAY Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs... GRACE LEE BOGGS It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their pa... NAT WOLFF You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts. CAM GIGANDET Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into thei... EVA SIMONS You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice... LAURYN HILL Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, beca... BOB GELDOF One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they f... CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it come... DREW SIDORA Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means i... MARTHA BECK My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much a... MORRISSEY Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know th... SHEMAR MOORE We underestimated those guys the first time. We just didn't know they were as good as they were. You... DOMINIC CRAYTON I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an... DAVID S. GOYER We had a great view of the water where we were, but this - when you drive in there, you know you're ... BILL CAPEHART Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I... LATOYA LONDON You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dud... KID ROCK We want feedback from all those who our closely involved in every aspect of the process of educating... LISA BRIDGES It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone... CATHERINE BELL This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun... DANIEL EK Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stor... TOM WOLFE The average artist has a naïve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, h... LOREN WEISMAN Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the... ELLEN GOODMAN One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter ... JEFF BRIDGES I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my... KAREN FINERMAN
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You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know t... RUBEN STUDDARD I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay. RUBEN STUDDARD I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it pas... RUBEN STUDDARD I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder. RUBEN STUDDARD We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. ... RUBEN STUDDARD All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especi... RUBEN STUDDARD So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight. RUBEN STUDDARD You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college. RUBEN STUDDARD Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally diff... RUBEN STUDDARD I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool. RUBEN STUDDARD I don't want to be a one-hit wonder. RUBEN STUDDARD I think I look good. I think I look real good. RUBEN STUDDARD I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through. RUBEN STUDDARD When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise m... RUBEN STUDDARD I don't have any concerns about my weight. I've always been healthy. I eat right. I'm ju... RUBEN STUDDARD I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud o... RUBEN STUDDARD I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education. RUBEN STUDDARD The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now.... RUBEN STUDDARD Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career... RUBEN STUDDARD My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape you... RUBEN STUDDARD And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry. RUBEN STUDDARD I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not th... RUBEN STUDDARD People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line. RUBEN STUDDARD I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up... RUBEN STUDDARD I'm always happy for people when I see God blessing them the way he's blessed me. RUBEN STUDDARD I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmoun... RUBEN STUDDARD You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay. RUBEN STUDDARD People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you. RUBEN STUDDARD I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shak... RUBEN STUDDARD I love football so much, I can get up for any game. KASEY STUDDARD Look what he's done. He's brought a program back, and that's a big thing. He's the leader of the tea... KASEY STUDDARD We're an older group and a little more wise. We don't get down when something bad happens. KASEY STUDDARD I just line up and play. It's all one big season to me. KASEY STUDDARD The way the locker room is set up is the first row is the ghetto, then you move out to the suburbs, ... KASEY STUDDARD We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration... RUBEN HINOJOSA I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band. RUBEN BLADES You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board. RUBEN CARDENAS We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans. RUBEN ASKEW I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the m... RUBEN BLADES We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact re... RUBEN HINOJOSA Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet th... RUBEN HINOJOSA While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe t... RUBEN HINOJOSA Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates an... RUBEN HINOJOSA Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can... RUBEN HINOJOSA At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a g... RUBEN HINOJOSA Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs. RUBEN HINOJOSA Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than... RUBEN HINOJOSA A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their ... RUBEN HINOJOSA High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of... RUBEN HINOJOSA So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. RUBEN BLADES The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unempl... RUBEN BLADES It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support s... RUBEN HINOJOSA We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize OUR vision of happiness - ... RUBEN PAPIAN Intuition is a perfectly natural process, not only for you, but also for something as small as a bug... RUBEN PAPIAN I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. RUBEN BLADES As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take th... RUBEN HINOJOSA The conditions are becoming increasingly adverse. It is grave, and being realistic, we think the sit... RUBEN ESCUDERO If we keep playing like we played tonight, we might mess up and get put out in the first round. It's... RUBEN PATTERSON Humans are very weird creatures. Perhaps stupidity is the smartest thing they are capable of conjuri... RUBEN PAPIAN Your whole strength is inside you. Whatever you wish, whatever you want, it’s in you head. I am ju... RUBEN PAPIAN The sole fact of survival is enough for the entire system to start treasuring every minute of life. RUBEN PAPIAN That was a blooper down the line and I was playing him in the gap, ... You would never expect him to... RUBEN SIERRA A human has to be that smart, to know how stupid he needs to be. RUBEN PAPIAN I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very... RUBEN BLADES Correct emotional state is a stimulative factor to everything. If you chose love, go ahead; just lea... RUBEN PAPAIN A lie is not necessarily a fraud. Lie doesn’t even exist. There is however hope, faith, fantasy… RUBEN PAPIAN You are driving a car and it will maybe eventually start going in the wrong direction. But it is you... RUBEN PAPIAN Try to record your own silence. Listen to it when you are alone, but be careful! You could go insane... RUBEN PAPIAN We're accepting no more changes. Our problem is, we can't get to a baseline. RUBEN COLLAZO If he was away getting something he needed or having a meal, he wouldn't be under the rubble, but we... RUBEN ESCUDERO Doubt exists in every step you make. It allows you to foresee the dangers ahead. RUBEN PAPIAN Money and finances are completely artificial categories - in natural conditions, they don't exist. M... 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RUBEN AGUILAR In the frontal war against organized crime, the Mexican state will be victorious, but there will sti... RUBEN AGUILAR We are keeping an eye on the situation in El Salvador. RUBEN AGUILAR The government is not scared by this pressure from organized crime and we will have to continue figh... RUBEN AGUILAR The initial information indicates that organized crime was involved in the killings of these two pub... RUBEN AGUILAR The studies indicate that it could take several weeks and perhaps even months to get into the area w... RUBEN AGUILAR A migratory reform that only addresses security will not resolve the bilateral immigration problem. ... RUBEN AGUILAR We can not endorse a working document, a draft that has not been discussed nor had a final edit. RUBEN AGUILAR However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement securi... RUBEN HINOJOSA The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trill... RUBEN HINOJOSA If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be... RUBEN HINOJOSA The future does not look at the past, it always looks at the future. RUBEN PAPIAN Faith is always reshaping according to your conscious understanding. RUBEN PAPIAN And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked i... RUBEN BLADES Humanity is still on the level where everyone’s “I” can be purchased with colored paper. It’... RUBEN PAPIAN Everything is a consequence of something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist - we only think i... RUBEN PAPIAN ... And hope says: "Come on, it's alright, just keep going." Hope encourages the strides to your goa... RUBEN PAPIAN My grandson gets zero tolerance (in school), and addicts get a second chance. I understand they do t... RUBEN HOPE Garbage can smell pleasantly - beauty can stink. Everything is far more different if you have the fl... RUBEN PAPIAN Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the p... RUBEN BLADES The data indicates that the virus is being transmitted efficiently from dog to dog, and this indicat... RUBEN DONIS The data indicate the virus is being transmitted efficiently from dog to dog. It is now well establi... RUBEN DONIS Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the ra... RUBEN BLADES Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young... RUBEN HINOJOSA I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recogni... RUBEN BLADES There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics. RUBEN BLADES I see the guys playing a lot harder when they see me and Reggie out there banging down on the floor,... RUBEN PATTERSON I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe... RUBEN BLADES This is just an act of solidarity between two peoples who are brothers. RUBEN AGUILAR We implore you to understand this effort. RUBEN ESCUDERO That's why he got all those millions -- he just has to be consistent. That's what big-time players d... RUBEN PATTERSON People have gone over the area [before] but not as intensely as this time. RUBEN TRAPENBERG He was the best player at 20 last year and the stats proves it. He was not elevated to the varsity t... RUBEN RODRIGUEZ I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher th... RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fi... RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be... RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON You know, I'm a father. I'm a brother. I'm a son. And I'm a grandfather. So many tim... RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON I've never considered being a cop. I could be a teacher, I could be a minister, a social worker ... RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON One was a regular virus like we have seen in poultry in Turkey before -- no surprises there. DR. RUBEN DONIS We think he was probably doing that just to see if they would be receptive to that kind of behavior.... LT. RUBEN DIAZ I think she was just a victim of convenience. She worked with the football team as well. She was alw... LT. RUBEN DIAZ It's easy to say that, but what happens if we start doing that continuously and then, all of a sudde... LT. RUBEN DIAZ When we did the rape kit, there was physical evidence discovered that leads us to believe that she i... LT. RUBEN DIAZ He told her that if she screamed or if she told anybody what he was doing, he was going to come back... LT. RUBEN DIAZ Tom Gordon hasn't been in [the closer] role because he pitched in front of Mariano Rivera for the pa... RUBEN AMARO JR Thanks to the AFI, who saved my life. I'm happy to be alive. RUBEN OMAR ROMANO