Ab-Soul (Herbert Anthony Stevens IV) Quotes
I treat all my projects the same. They're all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I'm thinking about.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a proud family man.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
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I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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Already madness lifts its wing to cover half my soul.
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
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I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've also made movies with smaller budgets.
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I think 'House of Night' blew up the way it did because it offered so many people a fantasy that they can be... vampires are very alluring.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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I really dislike the fact that Asian males are constantly emasculated, whether it's American TV or films. You see it all the time, and it's so weird that they don't see sexuality in Asian men.
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I think what I do for a living is a privilege, so at the very least, I'd like to think it can be a good time.
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I treat all my projects the same. They're all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I'm thinking about.
