Thurston Moore Quotes
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
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If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.
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I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.
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Amos built a wigwam in the clubhouse because he didn't want the reporters talking to him. He didn't like something that was written in the paper. I looked in there and saw an Indian blanket. He was sitting on it like a chief.
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To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
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I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
