Natalie Merchant Quotes
I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories – One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.
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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
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Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method. So they allowed it to begin.
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Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
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I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.
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I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
