Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we've been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we, in fact, all share the same proud title, the most important office in a democracy: Citizen. Citizen.
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The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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Financially I'm comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.
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Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.
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The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.
