Claud Cockburn Quotes
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.
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It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
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It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
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Sprache entsteht, wie das Bewußtsein, erst aus dem Bedürfnis, der Notdurft des Verkehrs mit anderen Menschen.
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Like those itinerant clerics who traveled during the summer months and took over for vacationing priests, I hope to help out this summer in Provincetown, but without the pedophilia.
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The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
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We must relearn to be alone.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.
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Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.
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My brain is a big cluster of stuff. It moves quickly and loses focus quickly, so I need many projects to keep me stimulated - it's a luxury to be able to do lots of different things: style, write, present, DJ or just consult. It can't be any other way; I think I would shrivel up and fall asleep forever.
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I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed.
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A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.
