Art Alexakis Quotes
I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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Time was God's first creation.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.
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Being a bad guy is fun for me.
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As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
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Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.
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I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.
