Tyler Joseph Quotes
There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.
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I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
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People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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I give away thousands of paintings for free.
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I put everything into my hand luggage! Really, I do!
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
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Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.
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You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.
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I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.
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Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
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A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.
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I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.
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There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.
