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."
Quotes to Explore
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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'm down here in Mexico, sick as a dog.My head is poundin' in this border town fog.Down to my last dime and comin' apart at the seams.I've messed up in Mexico, livin' on refried dreams.
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That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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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."
