Bradley Nowell Quotes
It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I am happy in Paris.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.
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Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
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It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.
