Pete Yorn Quotes
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.
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Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Issues become much more real to me when I have stories back home.
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There are always two or three or four sides to every story.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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Too many. Things I do not care for But one thing that I adore. Is a girl like you.
