Cass McCombs Quotes
I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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It's not just about achieving success; the journey is equally important for me.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
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I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.
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I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
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'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
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I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
