Mark Foster Quotes
When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I just can't read music.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
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The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.
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I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.
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I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics.
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Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system
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When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.
