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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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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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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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
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I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”
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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white people in this country who'll never accept the black man as a golfer. That's true.
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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.
