Binnie Kirshenbaum Quotes
Sometimes late and never amount to the same thing. Sometimes, it has to be now or never.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
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I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.
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You are not my high school crush, idiot.” “Great. I can die happy, then.
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I was glad I liked chemistry.
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I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.
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Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give me, I'd like to figure out a way to give back and make a difference, you know?
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And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.
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The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.
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Sometimes late and never amount to the same thing. Sometimes, it has to be now or never.
