Richard Parks Bland Quotes
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
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People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.
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It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
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I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.
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I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.
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I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.
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Brandon's super important to us and what we decided was it was probably best for the team and for him to put him on IR instead of rushing him back.
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I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
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I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.
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What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
