Christine Caine Quotes
When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
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It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
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That is to say, their thoughts came higglety-pigglety out of the big, buzzing, booming confusion of their minds, too many pouring out chaotically in the same instant.
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I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
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You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.
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When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.
