Nana Mouskouri Quotes
Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.
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Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or family, or peer pressure. If you have a talent and want to do something with it, it's down to you. If it's what you really want then go after it and be very selfish... You have to remain committed, you have to stay focused and you have to be selfish.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.
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Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
