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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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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I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions of dollars. Or people are afraid - they don't know what else to do. It's scary to get out of a relationship of any kind.
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I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the Beatles and Cyndi Lauper, as I really like their music.
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The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.
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I dreamed my whole life of New York being my home.
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Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.
