Wayne Coyne Quotes
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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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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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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Billy Pilgrim music is very emotional. It's one part the craft we learned from people like the Indigo Girls and R.E.M., and one part the Tom Waits craft, where you're trying to create a moment.
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I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.
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When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
