Aja Brown Quotes
I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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That's the great thing about women is they are multitaskers, and they can do it all.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
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As quoted in The Economist (13 February 1982), p. 11
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I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.
