Lesley Gore Quotes
I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.
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I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
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So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.
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We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.
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I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.
