Kristin Hersh Quotes
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.
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In my field, you can't really wear the same dress twice unless you want Isaac Mizrahi to scorn you on TV.
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I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job.
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There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
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The '90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the '90s than they were in the '80s. The '90s was Ecstasy, the '80s was yuppies. There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the '90s.
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Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
