Damon Albarn Quotes
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
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The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.
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I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.
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My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.
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I should think wrestling is the most positive thing in the world. The fact is, behind the scenes, there's stuff that goes on that's bush-league. It's laughable.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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It's a long journey. There will be good times, and there will be bad times, but SoftBank is always there.
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If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don't! I don't have those capabilities.
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I only get fat when I eat food cooked by other chefs. At home, my wife does all the cooking. She makes simple things like soups and salads. We both like steamed tofu.
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I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.
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I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.
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I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn't just killed for stuffing.
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If I ran a national burger franchise - which I don't - I'd make it a rule that no two customers can be greeted with precisely the same words and that every third customer must be grossly insulted as a matter of course. Just to keep the atmosphere nice and lively. And to keep the staff laughing.
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We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.
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I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
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I grew up in the grunge era. I've always resisted the idea of being part of a machine, wanting just to be an artist in my own right. But at some point, I just realized shutting things out took more energy than just letting it in.
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I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.
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Bergman made countless masterpieces, but for one reason or another, 'Winter Light' stays closest to my heart.
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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
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If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.
