Gene Ween Quotes
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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Say something personal, not from a publicist.
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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
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To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
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Word gets around when the circus comes to town, dont it?
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There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
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I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.
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My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
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The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
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A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.
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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
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Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.
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Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.
