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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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don’t drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.
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As members of Congress, we may disagree with the administration's position on foreign policy matters, but the fact remains: the Executive Branch is tasked with handling diplomatic matters.
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A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place.
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I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
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Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
