Warren Hellman Quotes
I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
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As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
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In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
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Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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'You told your mother I was gonna blow you up with a fucking pumpkin bomb? What did she say?' 'She. Was. Terrified. She wants me to move home.'
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.
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When I get bored, I get into trouble.
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One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.
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I love so-called movies that are bad movies, but 'Prometheus' is one of those movies that people are gonna come back around on in 20 years. There's gonna be midnight screenings of that thing.
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I was an average student. I wasn't any standout. I remember when people started to know who I was and the label offers, people started to get a little weird and be weird around me.
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I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.
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My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.
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I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.
