Graham Coxon Quotes
Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
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I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
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But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.
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Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.
