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Pretty Quotes
"In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is."
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"So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms."
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"They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring."
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"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves."
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"We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something."
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"Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded."
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"I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues."
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"It's a pretty frantic world that we live in."
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"If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero."
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"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."
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"But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script."
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"I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking."
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"Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive."
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"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true."
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"I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television."
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"I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right."
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"I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine."
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"Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves."
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"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule."
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"I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances."
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"But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing."
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"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying."
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"Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air."
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"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."
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"It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't."
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"I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty."
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"Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds."
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"When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things."
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"Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in."
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"I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept."
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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."
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"We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good."
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"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
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"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
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