Caroline Polachek Quotes
Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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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 aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone for ever. And I hope they are. I hated those strident tones that you still hear from some Women's Libbers'.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.
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Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.
