Amanda Palmer Quotes
Interviewer Barb H: Your sound is quite refreshing, did it come naturally?AP: As natural as the day you were born, my love.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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I don't have time to be that girl who does the super workout. But I try to be as fit as possible, given my schedule. Even if I do 20 minutes a day, it's better than nothing.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
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I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.
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Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.
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The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.
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We live in fortunate times in which we have only the irritant of terrorism instead of world wars to worry about.
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Interviewer Barb H: Your sound is quite refreshing, did it come naturally?AP: As natural as the day you were born, my love.
