M. Ward Quotes
I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
Quotes to Explore
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Imperfection is perfection.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.
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I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!! That is, I cannot bring out how far the proposition is the picture of the situation. I am almost inclined to give up all my efforts. --
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YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like.
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I want to play some really good, interesting, crazy characters. I want to take some chances. I want to take risks. I want to have fun and just keep working. That's all I really care about.
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Freedom is a universal value.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
