Elliott Smith Quotes
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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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I'm very happy alone.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
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I ask myself: are defeats necessary? Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
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I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
