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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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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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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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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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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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.
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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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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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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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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.
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Your waist size should not be more than half your height.
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I always wanted to get into proper shape.
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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.
