Malcolm Mclaren Quotes
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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Most novels put out by small or corporate presses don't really sell that well - usually a thousand copies or so. Working with a small press, you have to be willing to book reading tours, plan events, make contacts with other small press authors, and find new ways of getting word about your new work out there.
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I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.
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I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
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I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
