Paul Westerberg Quotes
We The Replacements never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
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When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.
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Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.
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The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys.
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Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
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Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can't figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're unlikely to ever do.
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We The Replacements never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.
