John Cale Quotes
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
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People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
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I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
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I haven't made my point yet, which is that it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contrary the Christian danger.
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The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
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I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.
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Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
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You always want to look your best at events like the Globes, Emmys, or Oscars. It's a part of the business that I am not particularly comfortable with. I would prefer to turn up in a pair of jeans and an old shirt, but it's all about image - the studio wants you to look your best.
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I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.
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A womb is maybe the most oft-overlooked picture of God’s heart that there is.
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Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.
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I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.
