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 love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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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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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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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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It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.
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I've got an opportunity that not many people have - to be the leader of Team Sky as I enter the prime years of my career.
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I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.
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Let your dream fly like a kite and see where it'll take you.
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Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.
