Natalie Merchant Quotes
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.
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Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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That computer was made in Alabama.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
