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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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.
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By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.
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I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.
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What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'
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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
