Cold Cave (Wesley Eisold) Quotes
I feel there is love and confidence in me somewhere and I want to find it. So far, music is the only medium that's allowed me to flirt with a sense of self-worth, with joy and comfort.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.
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Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.
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A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that's the type of thing they do that I find offensive.
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I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.
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We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.
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Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
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When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
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Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.
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I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.
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What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down...
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I feel there is love and confidence in me somewhere and I want to find it. So far, music is the only medium that's allowed me to flirt with a sense of self-worth, with joy and comfort.
