Devendra Banhart (Devendra Obi Banhart) Quotes
You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.
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It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.
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My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.
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I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.
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Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.
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Oh, what could be more delicious than replacing Chuck Grassley on the Senate Agriculture Committee?
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Every day in our house is like Valentine's Day. I've kept it traditional with what my dad has done with my mom. Every morning, I get up and I make coffee and I bring Giuliana coffee in bed.
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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I think we can create an environment where America can kind of get back on its economic feet.
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This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.
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I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do.
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You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.
