Cat Power Quotes
I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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I joined NOW on an issue of pay.
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
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Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
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With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.
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I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
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I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
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I consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.
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We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
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I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
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I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.
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Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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Last night they kind of took me out of the game defensively and my teammates stepped up. Tonight was just a little different. I stepped up in the fourth quarter. We just need everyone to contribute.
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
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I love that the world is data intensive … unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.'
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I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.
