Mickey Kaus Quotes
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
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That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have to be to understand himself.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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When push comes to shove, we all should know most Americans want the same things, but just disagree on how to get there, which is why it should be okay to not panic if the other party wins.
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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I have a memory of this experience when I was young, watching 'Stop Making Sense,' the Talking Heads concert movie, which is one of the best concert movies ever, and I saw it in a full house in New Zealand, and everyone was cheering between songs, and you really felt like you were part of the audience at the gig.
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I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
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I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.
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I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.
