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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You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.
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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
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I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
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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.
