Emily Haines Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg -
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
Maika Monroe -
When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
Laura Mvula -
There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
Barton Gellman
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
Randy Lerner -
There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
Ike Barinholtz -
Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
Octavia E. Butler -
Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
Maggie Hassan -
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
Sam Harris
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
Ian Anderson -
I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
K. D. Lang -
I am a fiscal conservative.
Ed Rendell -
You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?'
Laura Dern -
I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person - that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I'm truly unabashed about the person that I am.
Samira Wiley -
We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.
Faith Hill
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
Ian Mcewan -
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.
Erica Jong -
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
You don't want to be conscious of everything.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene