Captain Beefheart Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
