Lesley Gore Quotes
If I've learned anything in this business, how stupid would it be not to do 'It's My Party' when people come to hear it?
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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My health is fine.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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What people think and believe and plan are all very important, but what they do is the thing that counts most.
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You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.
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At my shows, I've been fortunate to see every walk of life.
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If I've learned anything in this business, how stupid would it be not to do 'It's My Party' when people come to hear it?
