Bret McKenzie Quotes
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I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
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I've never been one for widdly woos and widdly wah wahs, so I haven't had the desire to learn the more technical aspects of playing. Just write better riffs, I suppose.
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Why don’t you live for the people. Why don’t you struggle for the people. Why don’t you die for the people.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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It's easy to struggle in New York. I think New York is a bit expensive.
