Andrew Bird Quotes
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.
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In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.
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Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in their progress to eternal happiness; for this is the privilege of the faithful.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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I do not see why so much importance should be attached to the idea of 'research' in painting.
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Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
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Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
