Alain Macklovitch (A-Trak) Quotes
I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.
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Trust-me companies are companies whose financial results gallop ahead of their businesses, companies with seemingly perfect control over their quarterly sales and profits. Companies whose financial statements are loaded with footnotes: companies that short-sellers often attack but rarely dent.
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I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too critical, it affects them. They don't want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up.
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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
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I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.
