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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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 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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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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I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.
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If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.
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You need to create the illusion of success for people to pay attention.
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No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.
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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.
