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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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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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.
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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.
