Miranda July Quotes
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.
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On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
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My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.
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Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.
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Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.
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There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it. Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it: 1, It's me and my Nation against the World 2, Then me and my Clan against the Nation 3, Then me and my Fam against the Clan 4, Then me and my Brother, we no hesitation Go against the Fam until they cave in 5, Now who's left in this deadly equation? That's right, it's me against my Brother Then we point a Kalashnikov And kill one another.
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Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
