Gary Louris Quotes
The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my mouth while I'm writing the chords, and that seems to work better than filling up notebooks of what I think is really cool poetry, and try to put it on a song. That usually sounds like it's taped on.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.
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Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
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You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.
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Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.
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Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that".
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We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.
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The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my mouth while I'm writing the chords, and that seems to work better than filling up notebooks of what I think is really cool poetry, and try to put it on a song. That usually sounds like it's taped on.
