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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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love.
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I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
