Alison Mosshart Quotes
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.
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China and India played a much larger role than they did before in providing these funds for the poorest countries.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone. But also, who cares?
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I was such a fan of Aziz. I watched 'Parks and Rec' like every other self-respecting hipster and loved his character so much and just thought he was so interesting.
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When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
