Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) Quotes
As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together."
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.
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I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
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I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.
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The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
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I believe it is incredibly important for women and people of color to become the builders and creators in technology. In order to do so, we need to know how to code or, at least, know the language of coding - what I like to call 'code speak.'
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I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
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More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
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Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
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Every book presents its own specific challenges, or should, and you're right that this one has a preoccupation with uncertainty. In this, Valiant Gentlemen is a rupture from previous work as its obsession is with the psychology of characters who are in states of unknowing living in unpredictable times where the stakes are unusually high.
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As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together."
