Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes
The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
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Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
