Bethany Mota Quotes
One day I was in the grocery store, and I saw raspberries, and I was like, 'Oh, I can make a lip stain out of that.'
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
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The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
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A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.
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I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.
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I wanted them to beat Laurel Highlands' score, and we did. I want them thinking Albert Gallatin is coming for them.
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I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.
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It gets monotonous for an actor to repeat roles.
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One day I was in the grocery store, and I saw raspberries, and I was like, 'Oh, I can make a lip stain out of that.'
