Nicky Romero (Nick Rotteveel van Gotum) Quotes
Music has always been a huge part of my life and when I was a kid I was always throwing myself into whatever I could music-related - even if it was a little embarrassing!
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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Broadway has been my dream since I was 5 years old.
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'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
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I'm not interested in publicity for myself.
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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Japan should get more involved in mediating disputes between countries and seek to play the role of a peace broker. To make this possible, we must train people so they have a solid understanding of international politics and great negotiation skills.
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Music has always been a huge part of my life and when I was a kid I was always throwing myself into whatever I could music-related - even if it was a little embarrassing!
