Mike Levy (Gesaffelstein) Quotes
People think I’m mysterious but I’m not – that’s just what they think. I’m just me. For me the real mystery in electronic music is the artists who try to be cool when they aren’t cool. When I see a DJ who… throws up his mainstage DJ hands that’s the real mystery.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
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I bat righty.
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'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
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On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the idea of sex.
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The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.
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In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.
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I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.
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People think I’m mysterious but I’m not – that’s just what they think. I’m just me. For me the real mystery in electronic music is the artists who try to be cool when they aren’t cool. When I see a DJ who… throws up his mainstage DJ hands that’s the real mystery.
