Eskeerdo (Alexander Izquierdo) Quotes
It's hard to find rap that I love, you know. I'm one of those rapping a** rappers, but I just fall into a different category because I'm giving the people what they want.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.
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I was working at 'Forbes,' and I covered big enterprise companies - IBM, Sun, and EMC - and it was kind of boring. 'Forbes' only came out every other week, so it was not the most fast-paced job in the world. It was very nice, comfortable.
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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
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There are some important questions for Syria to answer and to deal with.
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Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.
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It's hard to find rap that I love, you know. I'm one of those rapping a** rappers, but I just fall into a different category because I'm giving the people what they want.
