Ian Matthias Bavitz (Aesop Rock) Quotes
You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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I totally want, like, 18 babies.
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the last second and beyond. So I don't think I'll ever have that feeling, unless I'm the one finishing the track.
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Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.
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The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.
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You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.
