Oskar Kokoschka Quotes
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I'm a slow starter.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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I love connected culture.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
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I play well with everybody.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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I wanted to see the score! What do you got to do that's so important? You can't join the religious cult with me!
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I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.
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There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know.
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I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
