Patrick Stump Quotes
There's something really personal about your voice, where if people talk shit on your guitar, 'Ugh, he played out of tune,' etc., you can, in your head, blame it on something else, but when you fuck up with your singing, that's part of you ... So I guess I'm an insecure enough dude that I just went back and really studied and tried to sing better.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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I'm not fashionable.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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There's something really personal about your voice, where if people talk shit on your guitar, 'Ugh, he played out of tune,' etc., you can, in your head, blame it on something else, but when you fuck up with your singing, that's part of you ... So I guess I'm an insecure enough dude that I just went back and really studied and tried to sing better.
