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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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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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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May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.
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The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.
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I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.
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People and their religions don't affect me.
