Pete Yorn Quotes
In your life, you can talk about it. Oh in your life, you can live without. Can live without.
Quotes to Explore
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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I like music, but I need to get outside more.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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In your life, you can talk about it. Oh in your life, you can live without. Can live without.
