Cat Power Quotes
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!
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Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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I'm not getting recognized because I posed in a swimsuit edition of some magazine, but because of what I do on the field, and that's important to me.
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.
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I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.
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I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.
