Michelle Tea Quotes
I have had the occasion of coming into money and spending some recklessly, like on a purse. At this point, shopping and the spending of money on things like Botox gives me the rush I used to get copping drugs on the street. Or, making other people cop drugs for me on the street. I didn't like to do that. I wanted to protect my reputation.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
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Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
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I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves.
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Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love.
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Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.
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Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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I have had the occasion of coming into money and spending some recklessly, like on a purse. At this point, shopping and the spending of money on things like Botox gives me the rush I used to get copping drugs on the street. Or, making other people cop drugs for me on the street. I didn't like to do that. I wanted to protect my reputation.
