Aaron Patzer Quotes
I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.
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Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.
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I don't care about a social life.
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Playwright August Wilson said, "To live it life as an artist is to be willing to face the deepest parts of yourself. To wrestle with your demons until your spirit becomes larger and larger and your demons smaller and smaller.
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Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
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I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.
