Jay IDK Quotes
I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I am a businessman.
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This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native should be prosecuted by a federal court. Tribal law can arrest and hold someone for a year, but tribal law cannot prosecute non-natives. So since the federal courts are so overloaded, some of the cases get tossed out.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
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I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.
