Yolandi Visser Quotes
Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
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WE WENT OUT THERE ON A MISSION, CAME BACK CHAMPIONS. WE PROVED WE WERE THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD.
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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
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Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
