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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

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• When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Think
  • Fashion

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

  

  Odette Annable
  • Want
  • Like
  • Lift

• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Human

• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Children
  • Child
  • Same

• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Appreciate

• In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • New
  • Down
  • Colonies

• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Just

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dark

• I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Think
  • Play
  • I Can

• To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Think
  • Support
  • Examination

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  

  Mae West
  • Performance
  • Worth
  • Promises

• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Changing
  • Faults
  • Them

• Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Life
  • I Love You
  • Altar

• Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

  

  Rick Bayless
  • Art
  • Community
  • Growth

• When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

  

  James Gray
  • Art
  • Book
  • Truth

• Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.

  

  L. E. J. Brouwer
  • Natural
  • Numbers
  • Mathematics

• Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Money
  • Art
  • Making Money