Eric Reed Boucher (Jello Biafra) Quotes
I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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I was tested against the best.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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People trash talk me.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
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Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system
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The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.
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I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
