Cass McCombs Quotes
People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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I feel very honoured and humbled to have people think, 'If Yuna can break through, then why can't we?' It takes a lot of work, but I tell people to just have that focus. Always be humble and a learner, practice and do research.
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What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
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I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
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I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.
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I keep the people who I know love me really close.
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I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.
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People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
