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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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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Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.
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If you make mistakes, you pay for them.
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Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.
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Lady Gaga is not a diva, and she's not crazy. She's just an incredibly nice, down-to-earth person who really cares about art and creativity. It's pretty amazing to be able to work with her. I'm pretty grateful for that.
