Cass McCombs Quotes

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

Cass McCombs

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• Talking
• Interested
• Themselves
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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.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • May
  • Success

• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Hollywood

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Thought
  • Younger
  • Retiring

• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Some

• 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.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Experience
  • Door

• 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.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Change

• There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • People
  • World
  • Two

• A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
  • Plant
  • British

• 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.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movies

• I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Christmas

• 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.

  

  Vanna White
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Homework

• Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Myself
  • Mistakes
  • Learned

• 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.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Crazy

• One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Today
  • Science
  • Know

• To act is to rest.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Rest

• Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Taken
  • Alcohol

• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Future

• All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'

  

  Brad Holland
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Blue

• We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.

  

  Mike Comrie
  • Thinking
  • Player
  • Hockey

• People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • People
  • Talking
  • Interested