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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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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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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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 don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
