Steve Aoki Quotes
High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.
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Trade was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.
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High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.
