Mickey Drexler Quotes
I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
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There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.
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I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.
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You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.
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He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.
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Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward.
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The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be.
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I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
