Joey Santiago Quotes
I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.
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When you don't have to buy something, it allows you to try new things.
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Grace is the truth that Jesus came to give us.
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We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, 'Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.'
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I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.
