Barbara Cubin Quotes
The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
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Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.
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Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.
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I'm thrilled to be working with Goldline, the very best in the gold business.
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If I am elected President, I will end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C.
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The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.
