Cass McCombs Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.
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I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
