Black Francis Quotes
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I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
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Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski -
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
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'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.
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We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.
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I love drag queens and they love me.
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I want to keep running. I don't ever want this journey to finish. And for that to happen, you can't put too much of your brain in doing things and can't connect too many dots because, anyway, there is no guarantee of anything.
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If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
