Nellie McKay Quotes
I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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Over time, I've been more recognized.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
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To my younger self, I would say unless you're literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission.
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I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.
