Steve Albini Quotes

I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.

Steve Albini

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I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

Trisha Yearwood

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I think, more than anything, in times of crisis we should be shedding party labels.

Ronna McDaniel

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The maxims of men reveal their characters.

Luc de Clapiers

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I don't have a brilliant body at all. I've got very broad shoulders. I've got very big feet. I've also got a very muscular neck.

Jaye Davidson

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The Chinese consumer is everybody. It's very simple.

Diane von Furstenberg

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My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

Ato Essandoh

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There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

Alice Oswald

WordsPeopleStandLandscapeWhole

What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?

Peter Thiel

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No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

Richard Simmons

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Fans are the best. I'd do whatever for them.

Ryan Sheckler

BestWhateverFansThem

What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts.

Martin Kippenberger

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