Lorrie Moore Quotes
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I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.
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Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.
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I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.
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Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
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One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.
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I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
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I'm a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all men do.
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Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.
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I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.
