Like You Quotes - Page 23

• I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

  Ben Fountain

  Eight, Years, Effort

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."

  Stevie Wonder

  I Like You, Singing, Berries

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.

  Adam Levine

  People, Band, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Your life can not be all about stuff that you love or even like. Your life is going to be about ups and downs and that is just part of the journey.

  John Assaraf

  Journey, Stuff, Life Is

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

  David Longstreth

  Sometimes, Feels

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Believe, Sky, Littles

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I feel like you can't just have fashion for fashion's sake.

  Hari Nef

  Fashion, Sake, Feels

  Source: wwd.com

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• Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

  Ty Segall

  Brain, Energy, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Running, Thinking, Insane

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.

  Victoria Legrand

  Nice, School, Voice

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• I don't know if it was related to the type of music that we were doing at that time or what, but Todd Cook actually just turned to me and was like, "You know what would be a great name for a metal band? Dead Child." We talked half-jokingly that we were going to do a band. I guess as time went on, I started writing songs that were more metal sounding, and it just evolved from there. It actually started with the name first, and then the songs came second.

  David Pajo

  Song, Children, Writing

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Natural, Audience

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

  Dan Bejar

  Rocks, Expression, Names

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

  Doseone

  Art, Feels

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• Matthew Vaughn phoned me up and he said, "Hey, listen, the movie has just done gangbusters. We've got to do the second one." And I was like, "Matthew, I have no second book. Dave and I haven't done it," and he's like, "You're kidding!" He said, "This movie's just made $420 million!" I was like, "...We've got nothing." So the amazing thing was, because we own the rights, we still get paid and everything, which is fantastic.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Rights, Hey

  "Mark Millar On Empress, Star Wars Influences, And Why He's Doing More Female-Led Comics". Interview with Joshua Yehl, za.ign.com. March 15, 2016.

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• It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them.

  Aras Baskauskas

  Voting, Survivor, Killing

  "'Survivor' Aras: I'd Be 'Stoked' if Vytas Won". ETonline Interview, www.etonline.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Just like you could dump oil into the Cuyahoga in the 60s and let someone else foot the bill, today you can pump CO2 into the atmosphere and let the whole world foot the bill.

  Ramez Naam

  Oil, Feet, Atmosphere

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.

  Paul Haggis

  Country, War, Responsibility

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• We think is happening in the brain, the way I like to think about it is, it's almost like, you're brain is going through all these stages of sleep and it's developing in children so fast that it's almost like you're shifting gears in a car. And at some point, you actually stall out a little bit, and that's kind of what happens during a night terror.

  Shelby Harris

  Children, Sleep, Night

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

  Malachy McCourt

  Persons

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.

  Jessica Valenti

  Youtube, Comment, Ifs

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think my biggest career mistake has been taking on too much. And I think this is kind of - I think it's related to the Internet world, where you're always multitasking and you have a million windows open and you feel like you can do a lot at the same time.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mistake, Thinking, Careers

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I feel like you only need one moment of inspiration to turn your life around.

  DeVon Franklin

  Inspiration, Needs, Moments

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think my body makes itself tired so I don't have the energy to do anything else beforehand. I do jump around a lot on stage, so I guess my body's like, "You are tired now!" As soon as I get onstage the adrenaline takes over. It's a useful mechanism.

  Martina Sorbara

  Tired, Thinking, Energy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've never had something - like, you know, drunk people have tried to do that to me, and I instantly shut it off. I say, don't to this, dude; you'll feel terrible about this later. It'll be - I'll bring it up all the time; I'll make fun of you. Just save yourself the embarrassment and don't do it.

  Seth Rogen

  Fun, People, Drunk

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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