Emily V. Gordon Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect.
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Love is a good thing.
