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.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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.
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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.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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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.
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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.'
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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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.
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My father had very little formal education.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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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.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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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.
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From a climbing standpoint, gravity is the adversary. You and your fellow humans are striving together to get to the same place at the same time. And I think that's a really good way for humans to interact.
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The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.
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I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.
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'The Onion' is an amazing place to work because it's a bunch of really smart, collaborative writers who aren't afraid to try crazy things.
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There are things you don`t do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
