Rick Nielsen Quotes
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
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Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.
