Greg Dulli Quotes
I can certainly see a band like Nirvana, like when they started having to play to the kind of guys that beat them up in high school - that was probably shocking. But you make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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We were mighty short of infielders in those days
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The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist...
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I've never liked to play stereotypes.
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I can certainly see a band like Nirvana, like when they started having to play to the kind of guys that beat them up in high school - that was probably shocking. But you make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.
