Raoul Peck Quotes
Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
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I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
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People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.
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Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.
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Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.
