Calvin Harris (Adam Richard Wiles) Quotes
The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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There is something quintessentially American about the USWNT. Last-minute, dramatic finishes and technical finesse aside, the spirit of the program reflects a determination and perseverance that resonates with the deeply held belief that with hard work, anything is possible.
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To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
