Lauren Mayberry Quotes
We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Jim MacLaine was the hero of Ray Connolly's 1973 movie 'That'll Be the Day', about a young man turning his back on a university education at the turn of the '60s in order to try his hand in a rock n' roll band.
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Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn't always flashy, but it does get results.
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No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
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Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the fear and hatred they harbor for all that they can't explain, control, or understand.
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We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.
