John Cale Quotes
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
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I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a long time. She's funny and created an image for herself that was non-sexualized but was really interesting and really cool and really kind of avant-garde in a lot of ways.
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Self-knowledge - the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching ourselves out, morning to night, in the act of illusion, pitilessly tracing each act back to its root, and losing case after case before our own tribunal?
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
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I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
