Max Eastman Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?
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There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
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Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.
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Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
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The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.
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A smile is the universal welcome.
