Pete Wentz Quotes
I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.
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Age for me is just a number.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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There are times when I feel incredibly loved and connected, and times when I feel alone. I think that's natural for all of us.
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Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
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Michael Jackson was one of popular culture's greatest artists. Nobody danced better. Few sang more compellingly. No one understood more about stage spectacles or music videos. He was an innovator. His reach was global.
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There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye of an usher, and then these other people would come on the stage: They spoke differently and had different clothes and hair. Afterward, they would come back, and they were my parents again. It was magic.
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I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getting everything you want. Now, we should never compromise our principles. And I never have. Those are the things that people vote for you on, that's the core of who you are. But there's always a boulevard between that and getting everything you want.
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I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.
