Pete Wentz Quotes
When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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I've kind of always had this balance between genre and personal dramas. It almost feels like the two help each other. If I was just to make a genre film, maybe it would be hollow and soulless. If I was just to make a personal drama, maybe it would be melodramatic and nobody would ever go see it.
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The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.
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If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.
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When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.
