Martha Wainwright Quotes

I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

Martha Wainwright

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• You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

  

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

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• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

  Halima Aden
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• My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!

  

  J. D. Souther
  • History
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• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
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• Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

  

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• They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

  

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• We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

  

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  • People
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• One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

  

  Gail Kelly
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• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

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• Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.

  

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• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  

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• What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.

  

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• Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

  

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  • Great
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• Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.

  

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• To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

  

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  • Words

• I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

  

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  • Great
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• I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

  

  Martha Wainwright
  • Children
  • Night
  • Dad