Alan Vega Quotes
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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I get a great high from writing.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.
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Music is like a language: you cannot understand it unless you learn it, or more accurately, are born into it.
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But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.
