Dmitri Alperovitch Quotes
It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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The way Aventura became successful was so weird. We didn't have a major label. They say everything has a reason, but it's not easy to find. The only thing that was right was the music.
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Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
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My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.
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The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
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It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.
