Paul Westerberg Quotes
People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
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It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.
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If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.
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We prefer paychecks to welfare checks for the American people and a robust middle class with rising wages.
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Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.
