Dee Hock Quotes
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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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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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
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We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
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I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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My best songs come from a place outside myself.
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Be humble and grateful for what you have and the universe will reward your gratitude.
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Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
