Aimee Mann Quotes
Soon enough you can say we made it up just for fun I guess to make a mess cause what’s more fun than other people’s hell
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had no idea what to wear. I think I did it in swimming trunks, then just put on a T-shirt and shoes for the bike part. Triathlons felt exotic. There was a technical and tactical aspect to it as well as the endurance challenge. I was hooked.
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We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.
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You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.
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Soon enough you can say we made it up just for fun I guess to make a mess cause what’s more fun than other people’s hell
