Danielle Dax Quotes
It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.
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Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
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I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.
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The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.
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It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.
