Steve Aoki Quotes
I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.

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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
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I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.
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If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.
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I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.
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You don't want to believe everything you hear.
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I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.