Flea Quotes
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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Being a bad guy is fun for me.
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Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.
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A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.
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I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.
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It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
