Joan Bennett Quotes
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.
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I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.
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I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
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To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.
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Politicians should trust people with the truth. Very often, we don't do that.
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I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
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To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.
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I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.
