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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I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.
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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'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
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Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!
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Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.
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I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.
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Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.
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Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.
