Elliott Smith Quotes
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Let's remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.
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Many times, I have heard people saying that they don't like to work with their wife or husband, but to me, it is a plus. To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.
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I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
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'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'
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Idiocy: crudeness’ intellectual equivalent.
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Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won’t need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.
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Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.
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That kid sure can bust 'em.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.
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And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.
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I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.
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I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.
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I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
