De La Ghetto (Rafael E. Castillo Torres) Quotes

I always like helping young artists develop because I was a new artist myself.

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• Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

  

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• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

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• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

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• It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement.

  

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• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

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• The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

  

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• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

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• Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

  

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• The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.

  

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• Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

  

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• It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

  

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• I think any time anybody sees the bad guy show emotion and you're not hitting the audience over the head, there's always a tinge of empathy for that individual.

  

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• Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.

  

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• If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

  

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• I thought [Johnny Wujek] was really cute. And so, I was super shy about getting naked in front of him. I didn't want to show him my goods...because I thought he might be straight.

  

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• When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

  

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• Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.

  

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• I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

  

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• Except for a handful of banks that just keep a handful of their loans in portfolio, on their balance sheet, every other loan that's originated in the United States - whether from a bank, mortgage company, mortgage broker - is sold into the secondary market.

  

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• We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.

  

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• I always like helping young artists develop because I was a new artist myself.

  

  De La Ghetto
  • Artist
  • Helping
  • Young