Nate Ruess Quotes
A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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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 think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.
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There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.
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As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.
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Whenever I try to do something, I figure out what other people aren't doing or how can I do it different or how can I stand out.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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I've always thought of Boeing as the premier aerospace company in the world, so as I was coming up through school, it was the company I aspired to work for.
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A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.