Nate Ruess Quotes
I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
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My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.
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What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
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I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!
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To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
