K. D. Lang Quotes
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I try to do my best.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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I watch a lot of football.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
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That’s because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn’t teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
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When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
