Andy Rourke Quotes
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
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It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.
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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Every time I come home, and every time before I leave, I invite all my friends and I get hummus from this little shack in Tel Aviv called Baadunas.
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My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.
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The girl's mouth was chapped, tight and pinched, her skin dry. Mama would say she looked woebegone, but as Bird looked at her eyes, the word she thought of was desperate.
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I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.
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To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a given time.
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I can't imagine being in a tour bus. It would be nice, but I think it costs $30,000 a week to rent. And I can't imagine spending what many people make in a year on a vehicle for one week.
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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I was always a secretary in the early days, before we decided we were brave enough to join Equity and see if this thing has any legs.
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Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that's where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it's an epidemic for reasons that make sense.
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I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.
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Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.
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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
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Nobody gets to the top without failing.
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More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.
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You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.
