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“I just don't think it's healthy to only have one pursuit, even if it's a seemingly positive thing. You can do a positive thing to the nth degree, and it turns on you at some point. You become stuck.”

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George Harrar

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“In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just doesn't allow for circumstance or other people's points of view. It's very comforting because you don't have to self-reflect, you just are. There's a strain of that in American culture.”

Culture Term Circumstances Morality Focused Point Of View Righteousness Comforting American Culture

Author:George Harrar

“Sex and graduation night is a rather common thing in our culture, as a celebration of turning 18 and getting out of school, or just of liberation.”

School Night Culture Common Liberation Celebration

Author:George Harrar

“My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always.”

Kind Song Psychoanalysis Introspective

Author:Vic Chesnutt

“A lot of my songs are very personal, always, but this one felt like a memoir. I almost called it Hallucinated Memoir. "Granny" is a hallucinated memoir. It's straight-up symbolism for my life, in many ways.”

Song Memoir Granny

Author:Vic Chesnutt

“Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can tell truth through fiction. And this idea also comes from nuclear physics.”

Art Lying Art Is Physics Radical Telling The Truth

Author:Momus

“Quantum physics says that there is an infinite number of possibilities and parallels to the one that we know, and every event is also played out in a parallel world. It's kind of a crazy idea, but someone called Saibal Mitra at the University of Amsterdam says that if you could back up your memory in case of a catastrophic event, you could actually revert to that back-up and find an alternative world in which the Earth didn't explode or collide with Mars.”

World Kind Earth Memories Crazy Possibility Infinite Physics Our Memories Quantum Physics

Author:Momus

“We are making fun of stuff. It is subversive, I think, and in many ways political. It's a reaction against the society we live in, very much so. When we make a commercial for a product that doesn't do anything.”

Thinking Political Fun

Author:Tim Heidecker

“Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.”

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Author:Tim Heidecker

“Just because we can shoot something that looks like a movie doesn't mean we should. Sometimes if something looks too good, it's not funny. Some things need to look good, because we think it's funny that you'd spend so much time and be so precious about such a stupid idea.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Stupid

Author:Tim Heidecker

“You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.”

Matter Enough Light Spiritual Values Winning Attention Darkness Righteousness Warfare Spiritual Warfare

Author:Thomas Kinkade

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