Captain Beefheart Quotes
I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
Adam Hicks
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
Samantha Fox
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
Hans Vestberg
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
Ed Case
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
Randy Alcorn
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
Larry Wilmore
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
Sam Graves
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
Dan Rosensweig
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
Ville Valo HIM
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
D. J. Cotrona
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I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
Taylor Wilson
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
Carine Roitfeld
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
Garrett Hedlund
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
Tamsin Greig
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
Quentin Blake
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
Caitriona Balfe
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
V. S. Naipaul
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
Wayne Kramer
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. White
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
Laura Hillenbrand
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
Captain Beefheart