Kevin Shelley Quotes
I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.
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I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.
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It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err - not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.
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The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.
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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
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I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan... We will defend ourselves on every front, defensively and offensively.
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Facebook Algorithms have got us all screwed up, where we only listen and talk to people with the same views as us, and I think it's not helping us as a culture to grow.
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I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
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I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.
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It's class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
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I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.
