Brett Morgen Quotes
Kurt Cobain, from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing...
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.
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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
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Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had a million guitars in there but I used the Strat & the Les Paul in just about everything. There were a lot of different amp choices, I was working with a pro tools plug-in which is like an amplifier stimulator. The possibilities with something like that are just endless.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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Kurt Cobain, from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing...
