Regina Spektor Quotes
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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I grew up with all kinds of people.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.
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Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
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I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved
