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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I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.
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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
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There was such a hodgepodge of emotion. We're dealing with Woody's death, and all our heroes are showing up. It was sadness mixed with joy.
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What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.
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I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
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I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
