Captain Beefheart Quotes
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
Quotes to Explore
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
