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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I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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We look at politicians and think: This one's owned by this millionaire. That one's owned by that millionaire, or lobbyist, or special interest group. Me? I speak for the people. So the establishment attacks me. They can't own me, they can't dictate to me, so they search for ways to dismiss me.
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What did we build it for? Was it all a dream? . . .Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam . . .And after a while they will fall to dust and rain;Or else we will tear them down with impatient hands;And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.
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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.
