Damon Albarn Quotes
I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.
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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
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I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.
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One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.
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Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.
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I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.
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I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.
