Wayne Coyne Quotes
I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder and carrying it?' But if we just write the stories that we're supposed to write, that's when we have the biggest impact.
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I don't want to spread myself so thin that I achieve nothing.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express - dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in 'Victory Boogie Woogie.'
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Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.