Captain Beefheart Quotes
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.
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On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love. I long, I thirst, this very instant, to kiss with tears the earth that I have left, and I don't want, I won't accept life on any other!'
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It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of writing and playing. There are so many memories wrapped up in each note and each song that it's hard not to constantly flash back to what made that musical event happen while listening.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
