Alex Wolff Quotes
I like L.A., I really do, but I'm really a New Yorker. In New York, there's a feeling that you're not praised or treated too preciously. No one ever feels too important because someone on the subway will reassure you that you're not.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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I run a business and go all over the world doing things for that business, things that are fairly orthogonal. But my job is to run my company, not to be the best Instagrammer. I'll let other people be awesome at it.
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Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.
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My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody, and he'd go, 'Well, Shirley, our parents cursed us with ethics, and we passed it on to our children.'
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'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
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Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.
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I like L.A., I really do, but I'm really a New Yorker. In New York, there's a feeling that you're not praised or treated too preciously. No one ever feels too important because someone on the subway will reassure you that you're not.
