Flea Quotes
A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw - to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we were not afraid of blackening our teeth or riddling our lungs with cancer - if we were a dauntless race of men with strong digestions - we would be able to devour life without the aid of these over-civilized devices.
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Then there is this idea that the world owes you a living. Here is a little thought about that. It isn't particularly logical but it makes my point. You were paid when you were born, with the privilege of living. Death is all that is coming to you. Life came to you when you were born.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
