Alain Macklovitch (A-Trak) Quotes
I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
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Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.
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I got with PETA for a fur campaign, specifically for fur.
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.
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I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
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I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.
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Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.
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Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it.
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Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.
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I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
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The value of a loving family cannot be understated.
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I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.
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I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn't become a writer. I have long said I would probably be a chef or a garden designer or a decorator, but since recording my own books, there is no doubt in my mind that if the writing doesn't work out, voice work is what I would choose.
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I don’t have to play football for money.
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Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.
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For so much of my life, I lived feeling as if, if I spoke, if I said something, I would lose everything. I would be pushed out. No one will want me. No one will love me. No one would want to be friends with me. It took me decades to get to a space of saying, 'This is my truth. This is who I am, and I don't care if you like me or you don't like me.'
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I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.
