Alejandro Ghersi (Arca) Quotes

When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The music has its own kind of agency.

Alejandro Ghersi

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• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • Decision
  • Without

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Bad
  • Parents
  • Day

• If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Write
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Idea

• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Man
  • Action

• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Glory
  • Journalism
  • Surely

• I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Myself
  • Things
  • Forgiving

• After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Looking

• The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Voices
  • Phrase

• We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Model

• Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • World
  • Heart

• The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

  

  Ben Elton
  • Real
  • Earth
  • Value

• By unapologetically opposing the transformation of America into a Third World country, the GOP would sweep the white vote–once white people recovered from the shock of any candidate asking for their vote. Why should Republicans be ashamed of getting white votes? How about the party work on getting more of them?

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • People
  • Real
  • Band

• A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Girl

• Our huge infrastructure that we need for keeping cash is very expensive.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya

• I know the American administration is trying to refurbish its image after Irangate, especially in the Middle East and among their friends in this area. No doubt about it. We are following it.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • American

• It's quite simple: I managed it by doing away with Wham!'s duo image. Obviously, the way I looked changed and that helped a little, but I still have a very pop image. It's a very video-friendly image. I find it a lot more real. It's a lot closer to who I am than the whole Wham! thing.

  

  George Michael
  • Real
  • Changed
  • Image

• To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

  

  Lukas Foss

• When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The music has its own kind of agency.

  

  Alejandro Ghersi
  • People
  • Vision
  • Happen