Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) Quotes
I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of pop music and all the music that really inspires Best Coast is very straightforward '50s and '60s pop music, but I've been listening to R&B and rap since I was a kid. I grew up in L.A. It's part of the culture. I listen to anything.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
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It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
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Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.
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If female were working in the same proportion as men do, the level of GDP would be up 27 percent in a country like India, but also up 9 percent in Japan and up 5 percent in the United States of America. It's not just a moral issue, not just a philosophical issue. It just makes economic sense.
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My mom is a gym teacher, and she's not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.
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In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.
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I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of pop music and all the music that really inspires Best Coast is very straightforward '50s and '60s pop music, but I've been listening to R&B and rap since I was a kid. I grew up in L.A. It's part of the culture. I listen to anything.
