Mick Jagger Quotes
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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My father was a lawyer.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
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If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.
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To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
