Adrian Younge Quotes
Sometimes, a concept is needed to spark myself and the vocalist; sometimes a concept isn't necessary for that spark. It all depends on the moment, because I don't want to be that dude that every album has to be this story or that story.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'
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You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
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The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
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I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me.
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You pray for yourselves and just ask God to guide you and to give you strength.
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Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.
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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
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Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.
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Sometimes, a concept is needed to spark myself and the vocalist; sometimes a concept isn't necessary for that spark. It all depends on the moment, because I don't want to be that dude that every album has to be this story or that story.
