Martha Plimpton Quotes
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Music is about the performance.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.
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I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.
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I believe that woman are superior to men.
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I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.
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I like things that are civilized.
