Captain Beefheart Quotes
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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The wonderful thing about romance is that there are so many flavors of it!
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This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
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Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
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I'm happy that once again I see myself winning a Grand Slam, something that is so hard to do.
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There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare - that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
