Piper Laurie Quotes
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.
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I get a great high from writing.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
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I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
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Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
