Cass McCombs Quotes
People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
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Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
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These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.
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I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
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One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.
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Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
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Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.
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We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
