Steve Aoki Quotes

I love collaborating outside of my space.

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• I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Why

• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Government
  • Voting
  • Sheep

• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • True
  • Happy

• By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Support
  • Single
  • Woman

• I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Small

• When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Energy

• The law is cruel.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Cruel

• I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Think
  • More
  • Page

• I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music... I think they're very intertwined.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Job
  • Hand

• But censorship by itself doesn’t work. It is, as Mao said, about the pen and the gun.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Work
  • Gun

• I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

  

  James Forrestal
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Great
  • House
  • Parents

• The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

  

  Chanakya
  • Life
  • Dog

• My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

  

  Doug Aitken
  • Work
  • Different
  • Space

• When hosting a party, move any clutter from the space where you're entertaining.

  

  Pippa Middleton
  • Party
  • Space

• Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Space
  • Painting
  • Magic

• I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Play
  • See

• But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Where
  • Sure
  • Inspection

• I love collaborating outside of my space.

  

  Steve Aoki
  • Space
  • Collaborating