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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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.
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I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.
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You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.
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I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'
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We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
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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.
