Kim Gordon Quotes
I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.
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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
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I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
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I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.
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'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.
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A true athlete is someone who doesn't just stop training when they stop competing. It's a way of life, and they keep in shape just to keep up that standard.
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With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
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I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.
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I always wanted to be a great actor.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
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When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure.
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It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
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There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.
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Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
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Women don't want to feel like they're wearing makeup. I hope I was partly responsible for that.
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I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.
