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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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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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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I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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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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Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
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When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.
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People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.
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I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.
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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.
