Mike Patton Quotes
I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
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I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.
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I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
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I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
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Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.
