Nate Ruess Quotes

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

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• I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

  

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• My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

  

  Madeline Kahn
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• Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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• I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
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• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
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  • Value

• There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Power
  • Feeling

• As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Time
  • Government
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• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.

  

  Washed Out
  • Different
  • Enjoy
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• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
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  • Together
  • Ending

• The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.

  

  Taye Diggs
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  • Up
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• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Death
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• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
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• I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Life
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• It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?

  

  Christa Campbell
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• I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
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• America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• It is even inprose, I am a real poet. My poemis finished and I haven't mentionedorange yet It's twelve poems, I callit oranges.

  

  Frank O'Hara
  • Real

• Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.

  

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
  • Doubt
  • Possibility
  • Tolerant

• Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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