Christa Päffgen (Nico) Quotes
I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.
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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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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
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I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
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I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker.
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I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
