Nate Ruess Quotes
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.
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How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.