Cat Power Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.
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Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because... Batman... didn't want a double album'
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Life is priceless even to an ant.
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I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.
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People and their religions don't affect me.
