Pierre Salinger Quotes
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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I'm running for governor because I think we need to change things in Illinois.
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
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Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
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So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?
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Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.
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The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
