Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
Quotes to Explore
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
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Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
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There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with what's the norm or what's acceptable. There's something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
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Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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One gloomy and pessimistic writer with a powerful style affects a whole generation of writers, who in turn affect almost every educated person in the country.
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When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your pacifist congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
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One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
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The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.
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I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
