Darcey Steinke Quotes
The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
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I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
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Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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May we remain connected in love. We are one.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.
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I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
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In the end, it is always the ruling classes, bourgeois certainly, but above all aristocratic, that long mourn the empires, and their grief always has a stagey quality to it.
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If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!
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[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!
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The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.