Carlos Mesa Quotes
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Everything can be satirized.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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I love simplicity.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.
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The final need is unconditional love. This is a difficult concept for many to understand.
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To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.
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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.
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I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
