Captain Beefheart Quotes
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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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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When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
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It's nobody's business how you do something.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
