AJ McLean (Alexander James McLean) Quotes
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure - like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.
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Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
