Fiona Apple Quotes
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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Politics has become entertainment.
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There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.
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We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise . . . Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.
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Jung Yong-hwa and I know so much about each other, I think it would be difficult for us to start a romantic relationship.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
