Thurston Moore Quotes

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.

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• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

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• I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

  

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• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

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• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

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• I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.

  

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• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
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• I can't hold a grudge anyway.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.

  

  Aaron Schock
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• I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Children
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• The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

  

  Jack Adams
  • May
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• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
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• As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.

  

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• Service of the people by sciences and arts will only exist when men live with the people and as the people live, and without presenting any claims will offer their scientific and artistic services, which the people will be free to accept or decline as they please.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Men
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• Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
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• For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.

  

  Ansel Adams
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• Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • World
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• My confidence comes from knowing I do the right things in my life. I do the right things in the gym. I do the right things all together.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler - he is so funny - and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

  

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• I could see that it was God's forgiveness and His mercy that I needed, and that was provided through Christ on the Cross for those who will receive Him as Lord and Savior. That is how I came to Christ.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • God
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• I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

  

  Jonas Mekas
  • Life
  • Words

• All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • She
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  • Words

• Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.

  

  Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
  • Words
  • Expression
  • Involvement