Pete Yorn Quotes
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.
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I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
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A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.
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I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.
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Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.
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And I could never see you depart us and you’re my baby, you’re just another girl.
