Lisa Marie Presley Quotes
I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.
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We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.
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It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.
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I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.
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I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
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I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.
