Bert McCracken Quotes
No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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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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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.
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'Villain' is such a harsh word.
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I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.
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If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
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I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.
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No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.
