Jane Birkin Quotes
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.
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Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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...I have this scar on my hand (points to shoulder). I see a lot of these guys who come with scars on their hands. It’s ridiculous. With me it was an accident. These kids do it on purpose. You can’t prove by doing such things that you are the biggest fan there is. I am myself thinking about getting a plastic surgery done to remove this. I also get a lot of people writing to me with their blood. I have stopped replying to those mails altogether.
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Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' The concept of the 'minimum wage' was seen as a radical intrusion into the marketplace and was described as 'socialist.'
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Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.
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Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man, two small barrels of beer, and a very large handbell. The men were purlmen, Grandfather Nat told me, selling hot beer in the cold mornings - to the men on the colliers, or on any other craft thereabout.
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The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
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Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
