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.
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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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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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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
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New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.
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And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!
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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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Saddam's hands-on years in the dungeons distinguish him from the other great dictators of the 20th century, none of whom had much taste for 'the wet stuff'. The mores of his regime have been shaped by this taste for the wet stuff - by a fascinated negative intimacy with the human body, and a connoisseurship of human pain.
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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.
