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.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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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.
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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.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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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.
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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!
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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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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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.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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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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I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
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If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
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You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.
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It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.
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It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.
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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.
