Ian Lurie Quotes
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.
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I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'
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And your work reflects a tradition that runs through our history - a belief that we’re greater together than we are on our own. And that’s what I’ve come here to talk about today.
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Outsourcing isn't the answer to everything. Lots of internet marketing pundits will tell you to outsource, outsource, outsource. Having a trusted team that knows each other and enjoys working together is good, too.
