Pete Yorn Quotes
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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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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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Can you imagine your second album - the difficult second album - it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, 'It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
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Public influence is the real government of the world.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
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Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.
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And I could never see you depart us and you’re my baby, you’re just another girl.
