Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) Quotes
I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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I could see myself in the fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, with the Kangol hats like Slick Rick and Dana Dane. But I could also see myself in a leather Troop suit like LL Cool J.
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I think men are afraid to say that they would love to have Michelle Obama in their bed, but they think it.
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I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.
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Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.
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I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.
