Jane Birkin Quotes
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
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We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?
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You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.
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I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.
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You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.
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Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
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The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.
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When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.
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I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
