Nellie McKay Quotes
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I don't work out or watch what I eat – but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I love sports.' What I also get are letters from a whole bunch of moms saying, 'My daughter is awesome,' and, 'My daughter is a great daughter.'
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
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I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.
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I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.
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Originality is neither a matter of inventiveness nor method, it is the essence of personality.
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It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult.
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The job of the governor of the state of Florida is to do what is in the best interest of the people of the state of Florida.
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My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.
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I love Victoria's Secret and the brand, and I'm passionate about Victoria's Secret commercials, too.
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There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
