Thomas Pablo Croquet (Thomas Mars) Quotes
The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.
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People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.
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We’re not going to allow gay people to adopt children, that’s against nature, it’s against nature’s God.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.
