Dave Pirner Quotes
It surprises me that more people don't take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.
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I'm no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I'll emit an unbroken 10-minute 'um' through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.
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I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.
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But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
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It surprises me that more people don't take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.
