Viviane Katrina Louise (Viv Albertine) Quotes
“Punk’ was the only time I fitted in. Just one tiny sliver of time where it was acceptable to say what you thought.”
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.
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In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.
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In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, 'Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?' And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, 'Oh, I won't legislate.' Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?
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It is a misuse of words if you say 'content censorship'. But no censorship does not mean there is no management.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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We weren't wearing shoes on a full-time basis until prom.
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The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.
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“Punk’ was the only time I fitted in. Just one tiny sliver of time where it was acceptable to say what you thought.”
