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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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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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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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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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.
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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
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It's so difficult writing about living people.
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Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
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I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
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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.
