Doug Stanhope Quotes
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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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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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.
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The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
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I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.
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Don't watch a lot of television, don't listen to a lot of music. God. What have I been doing with all my time? I'm a bore.
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You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
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Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.
