Nellie McKay Quotes
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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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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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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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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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The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
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No free country will ever again have anything like the 90 percent tax rates that we had in this country. Past a certain point, high marginal tax rates are, indeed, terribly destructive.
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
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As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility.
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You see some of these guys that lead in sacks every year, but they only play on third down or only play in certain situations.
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Number 40: Love is worth the risk.
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Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business.
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Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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Me and him actually worked together once in a while and played against each other during the summer. Later on in the season, probably, we'll get much better and stronger.
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There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
