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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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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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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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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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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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Say something personal, not from a publicist.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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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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Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
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The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they're dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent.
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Personally, I don't see myself as a sex symbol, but when people say that I get very proud, because I think people's sexuality is something very important.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I feel like every running back should have their own little stamp on the game.
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Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.
