Lou Doillon Quotes
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.
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I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.
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I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
