Bryce Dessner Quotes
Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.
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Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.
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I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.
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Don't know much, but I know I love you.
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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
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Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.
