Chris Isaak Quotes
I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.
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We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.
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A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
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I am obsessed with my sisters. Being the oldest, I probably just have that in me. But I also think I am the youngest sometimes. We all have moments when we are the maternal one of the group.
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I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.
