Liz Phair Quotes
I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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There is no such thing as ugly.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.
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If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so theoretically, I could do a film in three months without any interruptions.
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I have a tightly edited closet. I like what I like. And I repeat a lot. But I'm always comfortable in jeans - I feel like I can really do anything when I'm in them.
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You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.
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I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.
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I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.