Chief Seattle Quotes
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
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Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.
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When I want something to happen - or not happen - I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid. I found the opportunity.
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The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
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Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
