Cass McCombs Quotes

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

Cass McCombs

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• There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

  

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• About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
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• You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

  

  Larry Norman
  • People
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• The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.

  

  Kari Wahlgren
  • People
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• I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Age
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• Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Political
  • Party
  • Name

• (It's) very shocking, with what seems to be a large loss of life. Our hearts and our prayers go out to those who have lost loved ones.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Life
  • Lost
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• I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
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• I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Different
  • Want
  • Matter

• I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Film
  • Idea
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• Even if someone doesn't have birth or health records we enroll them, ... Everybody is doing everything they can to support these evacuees because they are homeless.

  

  Bob Hayes
  • Support
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• Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • World
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• I am deeply concerned by the current security situation in Kosovo. Violent incidents over the last few days have again led to loss of life and pose a grave risk to the cease-fire.

  

  Javier Solana
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• Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Home
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• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
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• I laughed on the way home, and I laughed again for sheer satisfaction when we reached the garden and drove between the quiet trees to the pretty old house; for when I went into the library, with its four windows open to the moonlight and the scent, and looked round at the familiar bookshelves, and could hear no sounds but sounds of peace, and knew that here I might read or dream or idle exactly as I chose with never a creature to disturb me, how grateful I felt to the kindly Fate that has brought me here and given me a heart to understand my own blessedness, and rescued me from a life like that I had just seen -- a life spent with the odours of other people's dinners in one's nostrils, and the noise of their wrangling servants in one's years, and parties and tattle for all amusement.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Dream
  • Library
  • Satisfaction

• I made too many mistakes in the games - throwing, fielding, pitching. So far, this season has been weird to me. I can't worry about that. I have to worry about the future and cut some of my pitches per inning, and that's what we'll do. I have 30 more starts to go.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Future
  • Worry
  • Cut

• I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • March
  • Streets
  • Hundred

• I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Streets
  • Teeth
  • Cut