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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.
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The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.
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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.
