Aaliyah Quotes
There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.
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The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.
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I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
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Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.
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I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.
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It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.
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It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.
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Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
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There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.
