Xavier Rudd Quotes
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I would like my kids to study well.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All I did was find a ticket on a one-way train. ... Give me peace before I die. The track is laid out so well; we all live our private hell; just more tickets on the hell-bound train.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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I remember, when I started acting officially, I was unbelievably green. My first audition tapes were just horrendous.
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I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.
