Caroline Polachek Quotes
When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].
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Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.
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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
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I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
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When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.
