Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack) Quotes
I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had helped me to survive, this lovely world that was to be mine when the war was over.
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The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
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People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
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When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
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I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.
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I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.
