Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes
I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.
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I believe Randy Orton is one of the greatest of all time.
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I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.
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What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.
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Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
