Black Francis Quotes
If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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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.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
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Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'
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I feel like I'm way too young to wear such heavy makeup all the time. It's just bad for your skin, but I'm always doing photo shoots or red carpets and events, so I obviously want to look good.
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
