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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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
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That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead to dullness, imitation, and mediocrity.
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Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.
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You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.
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Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.
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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.
