Martin Garrix (Martijn Gerard Garritsen) Quotes
I watched my idol and fellow Dutchman Tiesto. He was the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympic event - the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. At eight years old, all I can remember thinking was, 'I want to be a DJ.'
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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I lost my confidence.
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My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.
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Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.
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And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.
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I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.
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Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.
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I watched my idol and fellow Dutchman Tiesto. He was the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympic event - the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. At eight years old, all I can remember thinking was, 'I want to be a DJ.'
