Ariel Pink Quotes
I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.
Quotes to Explore
-
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
-
I don't get star-struck at all.
-
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
-
I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
-
Let us have peace.
-
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
-
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
-
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
-
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
-
I hate competition.
-
Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
-
I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
-
No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
-
In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
-
I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
-
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
-
To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
-
Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
-
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
-
We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.
-
I didn't care where my works were published.
-
For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.
-
Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.
-
I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.
