Black Francis Quotes
There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria' - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing.Black Francis Pixies
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
Otis Rush -
Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
Vikram Chatwal -
It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
Val McDermid -
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
Omar Bongo -
I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
Dakota Goyo -
I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
Zooey Deschanel
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dali -
Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
Gagan Narang -
It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
Karl Urban -
We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.
LaToya London -
The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
Nancy Gibbs -
Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.
Cameron Winklevoss
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I have noticed that my likes and dislikes do not create any great excitement. And how people try to get away when I attempt to talk!
E. W. Howe -
My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
Alfred Korzybski -
I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D. -
As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.
Kimberly Bryant -
Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.
Eileen Pollack
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We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about.
Joe Paterno -
Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.
Douglas Conant -
There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.
Uwe Reinhardt -
You can always accuse my records of being harrowing or dark or bleak. There is processing of trauma on my records and they contain a lot of healing. As a person who has been watching other's rage for years, instead of having my own tantrums, I keep the feelings inside until I can find a way of making them into music. The songs are like healing spells and it really works for me. When I really do a good job on a song, it gets rid of a weight. As far as hope goes, there is hope that you can heal through processing stuff and make it through to the other side. That's all I can hope for.
EMA -
What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.
Trip Lee -
There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria' - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing.
Black Francis Pixies