Damon Albarn Quotes
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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They hate whom they fear.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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I sincerely believe the word "relationships" is the key to the prospect of a decent world [and life]. It seems abundantly clear that every problem you will have - in your family, in your business, in our nation, or in this world - is essentially a matter of relationships, of interdependence.
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I lived in buses. I didn't really have anything else. I didn't feel like a female, and I ended up really kind of isolated. Everybody thinks you're so happy and so wealthy and such a big star, but you're really kind of lonely and don't know how to stop it.
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Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.
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My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.
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In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
