Armaan Malik Quotes
Music is a very integral part of my life because I was born into a musical family, and it's not just a passion... it's everything for me.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
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Most power just looks like an easier-than-average life. It’s so built-in that people mostly don’t realize how powerful they are. Like, the average middle-class person in the US is one of the 3 percent richest people in the world. Thus, they’re probably one of the most powerful people in the world. But, to them, they feel completely average.
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As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire – poison and antidote.
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If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?
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Music is a very integral part of my life because I was born into a musical family, and it's not just a passion... it's everything for me.
