Pete Yorn Quotes
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
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In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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ISIS is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us, institutionally or in a systematic way. But they can hurt us. And they can hurt our people and our families.
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... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
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I know you never wanted it this way. I can see, I can see.