Flea Quotes
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Small aim is a crime.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I'm always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.
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I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.
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I have to be honest with you: When the FBI let me out of prison early to advise the agency on preventing fraud, I wasn't a changed person. I wasn't rehabilitated. But when I started working with the FBI, one of the most ethical groups of men and women in the world, I couldn't help but have some of that character rub off on me.
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When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
