Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Quotes
I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.
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That's the whole point of my trying to achieve success in mainstream pop - to have straight people sing to my music that has a 'she' pronoun in it.
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In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.
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I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying.
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I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.
