Mojo Nixon Quotes
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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I have some sarcastic sides of me.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.
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We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
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Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.
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If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.
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Elvis, heal me, save me. Elvis, make me be born again in the perfect Elvis light.
