Alain Macklovitch (A-Trak) Quotes
Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.
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Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.
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I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.
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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
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...there is a sum of evil equal to the sum of good, the continuing equilibrium of the world requires that there be as many good people as wicked people...
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Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.
