Steven Siro Vai Quotes
I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell.
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Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now
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A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
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I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.
