Eric Reed Boucher (Jello Biafra) Quotes
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Time was God's first creation.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.
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Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.
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I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.
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I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
