Black Francis Quotes
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I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
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Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski -
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
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'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.
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We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
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Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.
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You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
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I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.
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I think willpower is very valuable.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
