Garrison Keillor Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
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Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
