Kind Quotes
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For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].
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I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.
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My daddy was a veteran, and it's something dear to my heart. I helped him, he stayed with me until he passed away, and I'm not sure what kind of life he would have had if I wasn't there for him.
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I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
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Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.
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There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.
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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing around words and melodies, for me. The material is kind of shape-shifting.
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Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
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The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.
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Solos I kind of couldn't care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.
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I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.
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I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
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I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
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Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.
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I was the kind of person that was very social and liked to be with an entourage and have lots of parties and have people around me. And now I find I am much more satisfied seeing people one-on-one. I avoid crowds, and I get really plagued by people as if they are bees or something. I am talking about my friends. I can only handle them one at a time.
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We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.
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Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.
