Captain Beefheart Quotes
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
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I was in an Uber in Vegas with some friends, and 'Don't Let Me Down' came on. My driver didn't recognize me but started to talk about how much he loved Daya and how he had a crush on her.
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There's various scenarios and interpretations about that urgency. I think first we have to get the facts. There are too many interpretations of the facts, and those scenarios could change based on the variables incorporated in those projections.
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
