Joey Santiago Quotes
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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Klutziness is endearing. I like imperfection.
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Whenever a relationship doesn't go on the right path, it affects me in some form, but it hasn't spoilt anything for me.
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Playing SpongeBob is freeing. There is something intrinsically about him that people identify with no matter their age.
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
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My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
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The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.
