Z'EV Quotes
When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.
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I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.
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I like to be as free as possible at all times.
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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
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We lived together for a long time,’ he said, looking out of a crack-spangled window, ‘we have no need to fight.’ I bet he is dead now. He had the vulnerable purity and courage that would ensure he was among the first to get whacked on the front.
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I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.
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When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.
