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"The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this."
Business
"No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less."
Time
"More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result."
Art
"The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone."
Being
"And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive."
Stars
"As a musician usually music is your way out."
Music
"You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems."
Nothing
"The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?"
Change
"I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing."
Art
"I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles."
Giving
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