Victor Pinchuk Quotes
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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Newton, and 'proper scientific method' after him, conducted attention to 'continuous description' of experimental phenomena instead of to causes.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
