Dito Montiel Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
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My favourite store? Seize Sur Vingt in New York. They make most of my suits, and they are really cool people.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.
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If you've got a camera that's two feet away from you, you have to bring it all back down. It's a lot more insular. It's different brush strokes. Whereas on stage, you're playing to people who, depending on the size of the theater, might be 40 meters away from you.
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I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.
Dito Montiel
