Cass McCombs Quotes
I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.
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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
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He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
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It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.
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The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political asylum was summarily rejected by U.S. immigration officials, while at the same time the U.S. admitted thousands of Cubans as refugees and political asylees.
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You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
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I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.
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I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.
