- Nov 07, 2020
Saying Quotes
The gap between what's said and what's meant.
This set focuses on the friction around saying things: doubts other people voice about an unusual project, the strangeness of writing lyrics meant for someone else's voice, and family conflicts that get said and later forgiven. It pairs well with our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
- Democratic Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not saying everything in Sweden is perfect, because it's not. But it is interesting having grown up in a social democratic country such as Sweden and then watching what's going on in the U.S. and the income disparity.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went over a year without playing baseball. At 39, not playing for a year, a year and a half, there were a lot of nights I was saying, 'This is going to be tough.'
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just dress how I wanna dress. Not to say that I don't care about how I dress or that I'm a slob or anything like that... I just don't have to worry about the outside opinions of what people are saying.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not against oil multinationals. What I am saying is that you end up going to them when you are not able to develop your own technology to extract oil.
- Comply
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- Nov 07, 2020
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020