Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
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I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.
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... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.
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Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
