Jane Birkin Quotes
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I love anything to do with history.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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One of our rules for the show, I guess the filter we try to pass everything through, is it's a safe place for women to be. It's not a show for women, because we're basically 50/50 men/women in our audience, but it's a safe place where women win. Women never lose on our show. I think that's very important. It's very unusual.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
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The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.
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I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
