Chris Isaak Quotes
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
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I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
