Amanda Palmer Quotes
I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.
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I'm a typical California boy.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
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After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.
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We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.
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Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
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We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
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I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.
