Martin Garrix (Martijn Gerard Garritsen) Quotes
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
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There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!
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I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.
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I would love to work with Pharrell one day. Like, my biggest dream.
