Cass McCombs Quotes
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
