Black Francis Quotes
I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
Quotes to Explore
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I speak the language of television.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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Why in the world shouldn't they have regarded with awe and reverence that act by which the human race is perpetuated. Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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I'm pretty vocal about my healthy lifestyle choices. I do try to eat organic, high protein and gluten free.
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I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
