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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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 -
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dali
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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 -
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.
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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 -
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 -
My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
Patti Smith -
The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.
Deborah Tannen -
I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.
Alex Garland -
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
Jeffrey Kluger
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton -
With a head coach, you make a mistake and learn. With a king, you make a mistake and get your head bitten off.
John Schnatter -
You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
Samantha Morton -
He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
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