Wilder Penfield Quotes
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
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PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
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There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
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New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."
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Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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Nicholas Sarkozy made the point that both America and France have political systems that they want to share with the world. There's an emphasis on being a unique person. Screw you if you don't like it. But the problem is, they're all the same.
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The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
