Aimee Mann Quotes
Coming up closeEverything sounds like welcome home.Come home and oh, by the way,Don't you know that I could make a dream that's barely half-awake come true?I wanted to say - but anything I could have said I felt somehow that you already knew.
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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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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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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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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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The small are always dependent on the great; they are 'small' precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other 'greats' and who can transform it in an original manner.
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In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
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I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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Coming up closeEverything sounds like welcome home.Come home and oh, by the way,Don't you know that I could make a dream that's barely half-awake come true?I wanted to say - but anything I could have said I felt somehow that you already knew.
