Cat Power Quotes
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
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I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession-from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting-you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.
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I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.
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I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.
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I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
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Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
