Ariel Pink Quotes
We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I started out doing musicals.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.
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I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life
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We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.
