Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes
I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
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Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part of my normal upbringing, but it's what gave me my start. I get a lot of my technical and high-flying wrestling from that.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
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I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
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The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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Just like we respect your legal system, you europeans should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.
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I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.
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I've got to have a bet going in order to play my best.
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I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
