Charlemagne Palestine Quotes
I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.
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Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
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Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
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I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like.
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I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
