Pete Yorn Quotes
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
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If it's we who choose. I'll reach another level. To be that one who never lost a day.
