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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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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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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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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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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I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.
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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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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
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You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.
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It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
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I saw an advertisement to work for a Swedish institute in Karachi in Pakistan. I had just been offered a permanent assignment, teaching in Oulu. But I felt, 'My God, I am not going to stay here forever.' You know why? Because I was following international events.
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I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
