Paz de la Huerta Quotes
I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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'Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President of the United States and his highest legal advisers, torture is okay, they said. Go for it, fellas. If we can't renounce that and remove it from office, then the Constitution doesn't work anymore.'
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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
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And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to say what lens that will be through. A lot of my work has been about identity in different ways. Part of that for me falls into the question of gender identity certainly but also about what it means to be an American theater artist.
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When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child.
