Lisa McMann Quotes
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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I have to stand up for myself... I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.
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It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.
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Either people are changing their minds about Trump, or increasing numbers of his supporters are deciding it is too embarrassing to admit they support him. Neither is a particularly good position to be in.
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The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.
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A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
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It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.
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Watching Siri and Dtui 'run' to the administration block would have saddened even the most benevolent of athletic coaches
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I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.
