Eef Barzelay Quotes
I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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We just here to do our job.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.
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I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
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Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.
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I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.
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I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.
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I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.
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I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.
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I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.
