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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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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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
