Yolandi Visser Quotes
I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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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 hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.
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Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
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There are a few directors as a young person where I was kind of like, 'Well, these are a sure bet.' The Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson.
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
