John Dos Passos Quotes
Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.
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I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.
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The world weighs on my shouldersBut what am I to do?You sometimes drive me crazyBut I worry about youI know it makes no differenceTo what you’re going throughBut I see the tip of the icebergAnd I worry about you... - Distant Early Warning (1984)
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You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.
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Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
