Mike Watt Quotes
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
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I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
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America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.
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Christians get trees. Jews get bushes. To stay in good standing with the Tribe, you've got to refer to a Christmas tree as a Hanukkah bush.
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Sometimes I have to shake my head at how much work it can take to track down a handful of food. Perfect example: I spent a whole day in the Amazon rainforest, in Ecuador, scouring the trunks of dead palm trees for grubs.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.
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You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
