Cass McCombs Quotes
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
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Along with 'Free,' where I sing quite a bit, there are additional songs on 'Skin' where you can hear my voice in the background - lots of 'oohs' and 'aahs.' But more often than not, I use my vocals to prompt other rappers and singers to feel calmer, better, bolder.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.
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I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.
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The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.
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Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.
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Jesu, the very thought of Thee With sweetness fills the breast.
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In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.
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I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.
