Kim Deal (Kimberley Ann Deal) Quotes

I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.

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• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
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• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

  Ira Glass
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• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

  

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• I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

  

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• There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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• I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.

  

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• I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

  

  Garry Trudeau
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• When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  

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• The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

  

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• A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

  

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• The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.

  

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• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  

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• For a wholesome collaboration of the sexes in professional life will be possible only if both achieve a calm and objective awareness of their nature and draw practical conclusions from it.

  

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• How stars move tell us that most matter in the universe is dark. When we see stars in the sky, we're only seeing five or 10 percent of the matter that there is in the universe.

  

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• What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

  

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• My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.

  

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• Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.

  

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• I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

  

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• I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me.

  

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• I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.

  

  Kim Deal The Breeders
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