Elliott Smith Quotes
I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
Elliott Smith
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I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.
Zach Galifianakis
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
Adam DeVine
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To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.
Adam Cohen
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Many times, I have heard people saying that they don't like to work with their wife or husband, but to me, it is a plus. To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.
Vincent Cassel
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I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
Beau Bridges
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'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'
Ian Paisley
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Idiocy: crudeness’ intellectual equivalent.
Otto Weininger
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Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won’t need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.
Jack McDevitt
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Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.
A. E. Housman
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That kid sure can bust 'em.
Babe Ruth
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Albert Einstein
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After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.
Kristy Swanson
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Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.
Donald McCaig
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The aim of SK's fundamental change is to increase happiness and share it with society.
Chey Tae-won
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Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most of what's in your own life, hopefully, is exactly that. Friendship and love and passion for movies and cartoons and comic books, whatever it is that you love. Most of the way we live our lives involves looking for pleasure and beauty and happiness and affection. Real artists don't use reflexive clichés about things. It's about honoring the reality of people's lives, which defies conventions and clichés and expectations. People are interesting, period.
Daniel Mendelsohn
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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.
George Washington
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Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.
Edward Tenner
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I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
Elliott Smith
