Cass McCombs Quotes
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'
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You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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Together, we are prepared to lay a foundation for a more secure future for the entire world
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It's very difficult to do, especially when you get up in age, to go back out every single day with the same intensity.
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We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.
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I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.
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They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night?
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I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion.
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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
