Muddy Waters Quotes
I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Acting is in your soul.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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I'm a very, very disciplined person.
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'You're such a liar.''But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?' She flashed her best smile at her friend.'I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,' her friend answered. 'Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.'
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'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
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When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.
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I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.
