Jon Brion Quotes

When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.

Jon Brion

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The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.

Matthew Desmond

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I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

Tori Amos

LifeMyselfPainMeGive MeGive

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

Robert D. Kaplan

NowRomeDaysEmpireDifferent

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

Mason Cooley

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The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.

Michael Winslow

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You could make a case for job creation or education, police on the street, but none of those things can happen unless we got our financial house in order.

Mike Quigley

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When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

Michelle Ryan

FitnessRealitySexyDownAlways

What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.

Javier Bardem

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I've got four pairs of cowboy boots.

Jordan Spieth

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Since I play piano, I can play the right hand on the accordion, no problemo. It's the left hand with the buttons that makes me crazy.

Donna Lynne Champlin

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I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

Donald Glover

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