Josh Homme Quotes
If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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I always love somebody who makes me laugh, who's fun to be with.
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Way back in the day, I used to cook for Thomas Keller at Rakel in New York City. Keller is a down to earth, kind, supportive person. I wish people could see that.
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But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.
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I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.
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If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.
