Lauryn Hill Quotes
I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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I don't do meetings.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.
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Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.
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I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
