Max Azria Quotes
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Just say no to drugs!
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Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.
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Fashion is about comfort and feeling good.
