Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Men always like what the ladies like.
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The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
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I love my life. I'm very fortunate for the opportunities that I have and whatever, but I haven't got to the level where people are interested in where I walk my dog or anything like that, which is fine by me.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
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My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.
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When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.
