Dan Bejar Quotes
I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
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I could only relate [to the family] that I, the father of three sons, could hardly imagine what it would be to lose one, far less three of my boys, in such a cruel and senseless manner.
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I feel like Black Milk has found his way of putting his life into his music. I feel like, lyrically, he is a beast; a lot of people sleep on Black Milk. Black Milk is a monster. He from church. He from the street. He get down how I get down. He's a soulful cat, and I love how he get down.
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Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
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The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
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I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.
