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.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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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.
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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.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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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.'
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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.
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I was born free.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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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.
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We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.
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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!
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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.
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I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.
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A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!
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The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?
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The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
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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.
