Mojo Nixon Quotes
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really intimate and personal; it's living, organic. That's how I want the music to sound; I want it to feel alien and strange, but also like it's got a heartbeat, like it's got a soul, like it's not made by a robot.
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He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.
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Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
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We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.
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Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
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But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
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In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.
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I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.
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I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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I breath wrestling. It's in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk.
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Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do battle with God trust Him more deeply than those whose complacent faith permits an abstract and motionless stance before Him. Those who trust God most are those whose faith permits them to risk wrestling with Him over the deepest questions of life. Good hearts are captured in a divine wrestling match; fearful, doubting hearts stay clear of the mat.
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Tiffany is wrestling in Jell-O.
