Alex Shakar Quotes
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Africa is the future.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.
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My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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We knew we would make it and become very big.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
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You need contradictions to make an ideal.
