Mojo Nixon Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.
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I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.
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That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'
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I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
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“Let go of what you think should be happening for what actually is.
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Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.
