Imelda May Quotes
I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I started out doing musicals.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
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I love girl power.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't I do them all?
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.
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I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
