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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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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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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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 like to do Pilates.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
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I'm not a negative person.
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Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
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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.
