Macy Gray Quotes
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
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I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
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My passion should be clear and please know it runs deep within all levels of my consciousness. I feel it. I feel everything.
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There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
