Patrick Stump Quotes
'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I always miss New York when I leave it.
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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
