Thurston Moore Quotes
It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
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I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
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I am always relaxed.
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
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But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
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I record all night and sleep all day.
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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
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The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
