"I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together."

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Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

Joe Goddard

#Ideas Quotes #Together Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.”

Source : Remarks at the 59th Academy Awards (On Oscar Acceptance Etiquette), delivered 30 March 1987, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
“Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?”

Source : Source: fourtwonine.com
“Who you know yourself to beâ€ is simply one way of being that is available to you, and you are not stuck with that way of being.”
“Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.”
“Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.”
“But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.”
“Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.”
“If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.”

Source : "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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