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ALBERT KUVEZIN I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
PATRICK CARNEY If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.
MEREDITH WEST Our fly fishing show is different than most because it is all hands-on. If you want to tie flies we ...
ALLEN FORSHAGE If you live in a school, then you're probably a fish.
ANONYMOUS if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.
KIM YOUNG-HA Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was go...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I'm interested in playing, not working.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathe...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't know anything about music.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're the...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enoug...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he&#...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starvi...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at nigh...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man t...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train mysel...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of ev...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Big Eyed Beans From Venus
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want a...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't do lullabyes.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel
ANN LANDERS And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.
KRISTEN JOHNSTON If you want to meet fish, you go in water, and if you want to meet birds, visit the sky.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.
GEORGE ALLEN, SR. If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.
GEORGE ALLEN If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time e...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Vice-Captain Adair: No. Captain entrusted this to us, so we must see it through no matter what. Or h...
YU WO To be able to promote your son to captain — what an honor. I'm so proud of you, ... The sky's the ...
SCOTT CARPENTER Here's what it takes. If you love to fish, want to teach others, care about the ethical use of Vermo...
MARK SCOTT If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your...
MARILYN MANSON If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish...
DAN QUAYLE We want to fish or we want to be paid not to fish.
DON STEVENS If I am not that dead fish who go with the stream, I am also not that fish who jump into the bear's ...
MEVIN GORAYAH If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad mom...
PATRICK STEWART TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch...
AARON BROWN I'm so proud of my team. The players acted like a team. It's the way you want to dream about going o...
BOB LEWIS If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'...
DAN QUAYLE There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
Folks tend to confuse both.
The right way i...
UFUOMA APOKI The competition is going to be very fierce out there. To tell you the truth, I want to get the whole...
DARLA BARDELLI Of course, it's nice to be a captain, because if you're a captain, it says you did something. But fo...
JAROMIR JAGR There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
CARINE ROITFELD It is what it is. It's disappointing, of course. To be honest the jump is a lot different. To me nob...
JEREMY MCGRATH I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybod...
PETER CAPALDI If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways...
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways...
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million way...
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways...
YUSUF ISLAM Fish is very good for you. But people need to be aware of the levels of mercury in different kinds.
JOANNA BURGER Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school...
JAMES S. COLEMAN I cannot have a man who is afraid of everything, I don't have the time to soothe insecurities and fe...
C. JOYBELL C. If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a dif...
SENECA Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, sli...
DALLAS ROBERTS There'll be no criticism of anybody that wants to jump out. I'll take you close to the field. All yo...
GEORGE MCGOVERN Ladies, If you want a different kind of man...become a different kind of woman.
UNKNOWN We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
EMIL ZATOPEK A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't ...
HARBHAJAN SINGH If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ...
CAT STEVENS There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job ba...
DAVE GAHAN If you want a summer job, you need to start applying now. If you wait too long and don't apply until...
HEATHER TAYLOR Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team....
DANIEL CORMIER You still want to play your position. But if you see an opening, you do have the green light to jump...
GUY DUPUIS If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord...
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PATIENCE JOHNSON Some coaches prefer players who will just do whatever he tells them to. It's like, if you're...
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC If you want to make a difference, think different
PALLE OSWALD A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE If you can jump, you can jump.
BROOKE SWEAT If you want to free yourself from containment, don’t jump over the wall, tear it down.
RYAN KIER I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.
JULIE ANDREWS If you want to be somebody be yourself. If you want to be happy be. If you want to go somewhere or d...
BRANDON HOFER If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON It's a respect thing. If Teddy or the other senior players didn't respect me as captain, I wouldn't ...
NIGEL REO-COKER Do you want to make your Life exciting? Then find a purpose that will make you jump out of bed each ...
RVM Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK If the weather's nice, I'll be fishing [yesterday]. I'll go to church in the morning, fish in the af...
DAVE ROBBINS If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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