Damien Rice Quotes
Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I am so honored to join the company of a roster as celebrated and diverse as Covergirl's. I can't wait to share some of my own beauty tips with fans and work alongside Covergirl to continue empowering girls and women to celebrate their individuality.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.
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I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.
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Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.
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The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
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Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
