Charlemagne Palestine Quotes
I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
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I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
