Jane Birkin Quotes
He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.
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Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.
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There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.
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He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.
