Devendra Banhart (Devendra Obi Banhart) Quotes
I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
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There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.
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I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don't have anybody around who loves you, then what's it all for? You're just lonely in the end.
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Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.
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I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.
