Dan Auerbach Quotes
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Actor's life is very long.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
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A lot of people are quick to say that saying 'black lives matter' makes you anti-cop. All lives should indeed matter, but we have a systemic problem in this country in which black lives do not matter enough.
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Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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You have to laugh through hard things, right? How else do you cope?
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I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
