Hamilton Leithauser Quotes
Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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Is the flow of time something real, or might our sense of time passing be just an illusion that hides the fact that what is real is only a vast collection of memories?
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While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.
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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
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When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
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It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
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Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love be as important as romantic love, and to show that love can go through fire and darkness – not unchanged, because experiences like that change everyone – but never faltering.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
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I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
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I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.
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I watched him at Seattle
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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
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My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
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Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.
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Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie.
