Liz Phair Quotes
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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There is no truly global justice.
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I've been insane from a very early age.
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Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.
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'I’ll admit, I was disappointed to learn that dragons didn’t exist. That’s a hard lesson for a boy to learn.'Chronicler smiled. 'Honestly, I was a little disappointed myself. I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same.'
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Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn't prepared to join up myself.
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I've always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise it every few years in the way a pop singer will reprise their hits. Like Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' until he's fed up with it, finding different ways of doing it.
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I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.
