Pete Wentz Quotes
If you aren't just a little depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
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...an Empire now crashing about their ears. The Sikh smiled at the vanity of human aspirations.
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I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
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Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
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...since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
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If you aren't just a little depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.
