Psy (Park Jae-sang) Quotes
That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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You just have to do what you know is right.
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What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
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Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.
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The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
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The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.
