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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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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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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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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My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.
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I love children.
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Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
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I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.
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I really liked John Candy in 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.' He was so good in that movie.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.
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Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.
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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.
