Brendon Urie Quotes
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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I believe that change keeps you young.
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When I like something, I thoroughly pursue it. That hasn't changed since I was in high school.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.
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I always miss New York when I leave it.
