Kate Bush Quotes
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.
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I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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'I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.''As listeners, we are not required to understand,' said Qiingi. 'Only to care.'
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
