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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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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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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With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, you can go crazy too.Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, I wanna go crazy with you.Everybody sayin' 'Woah, how sweet it is. Woah.'Yeah, it felt good on my lips.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.
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As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
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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.
