Captain Beefheart Quotes
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.Captain Beefheart
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White -
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
Haniel Long -
I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
Karl Schroeder -
Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
Tadashi Yanai -
There's nothing unnatural in creation.
Wadada Leo Smith -
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
Edgar Wright -
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West -
I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
Om Puri -
My father had very little formal education.
Daniel Berrigan -
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
Vin Diesel -
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
Jack Henry Abbott
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
Kate Bush -
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso -
I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
Gary Lineker -
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
Edmund Phelps -
When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
Dan Pink
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If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.
Emily Browning -
It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.
Pete Carroll -
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
David Soul -
I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.
Louis C. K. -
I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.
Janet Malcolm -
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
Captain Beefheart