Black Francis Quotes
When we've got something to say to the world, we will. I'm really happy that people are interested. "So, what's up with the Pixies record? So, what's up with the Pixies record?" One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, "I just got done telling you no, there's nothing to report."
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
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There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.
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The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.
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You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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People will always respond to high-class drama.
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A lot of people say, 'It takes a lot to beat him,' or whatever. I'm trying to show you in the most literal terms, my body is indestructible, whether its glass or fire or barbed wire.
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I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.
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Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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When we've got something to say to the world, we will. I'm really happy that people are interested. "So, what's up with the Pixies record? So, what's up with the Pixies record?" One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, "I just got done telling you no, there's nothing to report."
