Carre Otis Quotes
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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I was born free.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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Perfect love casteth out fear.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.
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Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
