Pete Yorn Quotes
We were passers on the street. I never thought we'd meet until I said "How do you do, my love?
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.
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I loved something I made up.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody.
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But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
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We were passers on the street. I never thought we'd meet until I said "How do you do, my love?
