Beth Gibbons Quotes
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.
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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
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I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
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I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
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I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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We all fall in love with someone for the person they are - not because of their race, their hair, or any of the frivolous things that go away in time.
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When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.
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I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.
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Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.
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Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.
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Le bonheur est, dans l'amour, un état anormal.
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We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.
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But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
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Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
