Dong Young-bae (Taeyang) Quotes
Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.
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I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.
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You have good days and bad days.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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Everyone should still want to put their music out because it's important that people still think that you are still willing to come to them. When you're dealing with the Internet, it's a 'come to me' situation. But when people see you out-and-about, promoting your merch and in the club, people enjoy that, too.
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One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them.
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I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three tenths are graduating, you have to figure some of our children are getting a greater equalizer than others.
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Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.
