Jeff Buckley Quotes
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.
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We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
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I grew up in an athletic family. My dad played and my brother currently plays professional soccer, so I'm athletic.
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The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.
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Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.
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Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.
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It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible...
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A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
