P. J. Harvey Quotes
Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
