Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
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The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
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I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
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There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.
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Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
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Through a vicious circle of pure reason skepsis itself becomes dogma.
