Wayne Coyne Quotes

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

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• If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • World
  • Children

• About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Good
  • You
  • Week

• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Go

• Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

  

  Garth Brooks
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  • Change
  • Band

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Great

• Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • May
  • You

• I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

  

  Aaron Paul
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  • Up
  • Good

• How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • You
  • Energy
  • Rest

• Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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  • Time
  • Football

• If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Love
  • Opinion
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• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
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• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
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  • Age
  • Acting

• Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • May
  • You
  • Need

• I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Future
  • Song
  • Past

• As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

  

  Christopher Buckley
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  • World
  • Financial

• Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.

  

  Megan Hilty
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• Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Missing

• We do not wish to penalise the machine for its inability to shine in beauty competitions, nor to penalise a man for losing in a race against an aeroplane. The conditions of our game make these disabilities irrelevant.

  

  Alan Turing
  • Game
  • Wish
  • Shine

• There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Live
  • Movie

• Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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