Bill Laswell Quotes
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I don't like allegories.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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We are struggling with racism, but racism is also alive and well in many other countries. And what we must overcome is racism being the cause of conflict. And what we need to recognize human beings as human beings; to award merit.
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I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.
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People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
