Meg White Quotes
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
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I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.
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I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
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It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.
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I love sci-fi. Growing up, I was a big fan of the 'Alien' series, 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' etcetera. Plus, anything apocalyptic - 'I Am Legend,' '1984,' 'Battlestar Galactica.'
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Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.
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Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.
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I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.
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At Microsoft, we know first-hand how passionate entrepreneurs can change the world. We believe that technology can empower everyone to achieve more.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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The self-proclaimed Islamic State cannot tolerate diversity, which is why we must celebrate it.
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You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.
