Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
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I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot.
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Then once you've got that dream in mind please dream a million more and not a million quiet dreams, a million dreams that roar!
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I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
