Stone Gossard Quotes
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.
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[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.
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People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator to bring industry to the state. That's the lieutenant governor's job, that's your state senators' and assemblymen's job. That's your secretary of state's job, to make a climate in the state that says, 'Y'all come.'
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Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
