Brother Ali (Ali Douglas Newman) Quotes
Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
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Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.
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I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
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You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
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Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
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If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.
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I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
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I love to eat makhanas, and I always keep a packet in my car.
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For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.
