Paul Weller Quotes
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and they're the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.
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You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.
