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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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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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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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.
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There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to drive me there at night and pick me up when it closed. I think he was worried about this routine but never let on. Also, I kept this a secret from my friends, as I don't think it would have been considered the 'coolest' habit.
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The thing you want your kids to do most of all is succeed in life and be everything they can be. And if there's anything that may infringe on that, that may limit that, I don't want my kids doing it.
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Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
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The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
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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.
