Johnny Marr Quotes
Don't get me wrong, I think "Portlandia" is really funny, and quite brilliant, but I like to be in a city where I can hang out in Powell's Bookstore most nights and go out with my friends in a liberal, relaxed atmosphere. I wish more cities were like that.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.
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Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?
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At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
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I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, because a book will be on bookshelves and in libraries long after we're gone, and, in some ways, whatever happens is none of our business.
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Don't get me wrong, I think "Portlandia" is really funny, and quite brilliant, but I like to be in a city where I can hang out in Powell's Bookstore most nights and go out with my friends in a liberal, relaxed atmosphere. I wish more cities were like that.
