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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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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I never fuck with Facebook. I absolutely despise social networking. I think it's truly going to result in the destruction of mankind. Sometimes I just wish I didn't live in this time. Before, there was so much more freedom and privacy, and you could truly escape places.
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It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same.
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Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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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.
