Evan Dando Quotes
My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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I love design.
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It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!
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It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.
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I like shopping, and I like to drive.
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
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There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
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Il me restait peu de temps. Je ne voulais pas le perdre avec Dieu.
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I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
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I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.
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We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.
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My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
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I think everyone's dream is to be an actress, but I never really thought it was going to happen.
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My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
