Andy Rourke Quotes

When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'

Andy Rourke

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To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.

John Allison

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If I can do a scene in one shot, it's in one shot. Most of my shots are pretty long. I think with 'Looking,' what we have in the first minute is a whole episode of a traditional TV show. I like to let things breathe; I like to let things have a certain tone.

Andrew Haigh

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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

Anand Giridharadas

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Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

Suheir Hammad

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For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.

Ron Wyden

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How can you run for president if you don't know the job description?

Mohamed ElBaradei

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Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. I always tried to make the records about the artists and their particular sound.

Lou Adler

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My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.

Jay Parini

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The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

Sean Durkin

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I had faith that music would be able to take me somewhere. I didn't know where. I just was like, 'Keep having faith, and any doors that open, I'll walk through them and see what happens from there.'

Tyga

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Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

Tyne Daly

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