Avey Tare (David Michael Portner) Quotes

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

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• It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

  

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• I was a tomboy.

  

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• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

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• Golf is played with the arms.

  

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• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

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• I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

  

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• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

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• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

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• I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

  

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• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

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• I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

  

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• I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.

  

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• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

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• You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

  

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• The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

  

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• The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

  

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• The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.

  

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• The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.

  

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• Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

  

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• A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

  

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• Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

  

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