Bill Laswell Quotes

I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.

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• You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Australia
  • Everywhere

• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Wise

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • American
  • Black
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• I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
  • Computers

• I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • English
  • Language
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• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Enjoy

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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  • Personality
  • Where

• What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
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• I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

  

  Candice Olson
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• As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

  

  Karen Finerman
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• My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Children

• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Enthusiasm
  • Common Sense

• My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Art
  • Passion

• I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.

  

  Frank Abagnale
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• My favourite album by her is The Dreaming, and I think she produced that one herself. That got a lot of criticism - but I loved it. It was overloaded with textures, and tones and all manner of things. It’s a record that I still can play to this day, and still hear new things.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • She
  • Criticism

• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Four
  • Daughters
  • Five

• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Beginning

• I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.

  

  Bill Laswell
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