Amanda Palmer Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.
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At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.
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Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.
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Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
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I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.
