Patrick Stump Quotes
There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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I am a Bolshevik.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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My closet is pretty organized, I'm proud to say. It's set up by type of clothes and then by color. And then, of course, there's the rotating from spring/summer to fall/winter.
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People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.
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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
