Paul Westerberg Quotes
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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You have to understand the nature of light.
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I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.
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I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: 'The Daily Show,' Rachel Maddow, 'Hardball,' 'The Colbert Report,' 'The O'Reilly Factor,' David Letterman.
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The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
