Kim Gordon Quotes
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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I know some women's rights activists have seen so much abuse that they can't stand men, but I have a sense of empathy with the men. Without excusing the abuse they are capable of, many of them are trapped within these communities and bound by expectations they didn't necessarily ask for.
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The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.
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If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.
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To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.
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Radishes grow just about anywhere. People think, 'Oh it's just a radish.' But radishes are delicious, and people don't think of cooking them.
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It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.
