Al Goldstein Quotes
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.
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Did you see my ninja move?That was fast, right?" "You are not a ninja, Shane." "I've watched all the movies. I just haven't gotten the certificate from the correspondence course yet.
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It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
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Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
