Mike Patton Quotes
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation, and the first step towards co-operation lies in the hearts of individuals.
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Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue where ego gets involved and causes some kind of shake-up.
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I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.
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By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.
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We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged... we want to give them new music.
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
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In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.
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The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.
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I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.
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What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.
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I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.
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The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.
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I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.
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My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'
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He had the advantage, in retrospect, that that's the only thing he grew up with, right ? In a sense, one of his strengths is that he's a purist to That SaaS model.
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I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'
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I am no one to be a purist.
