Chris Weitz Quotes
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
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I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.
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I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.
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I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.
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When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.
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Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.
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The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.
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The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
