Ariel Pink Quotes
I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.
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After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
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Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General's Award wasn't something I even thought to wish for.
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My main weakness is nerves.
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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
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In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.
