Kim Gordon Quotes
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse that trust.
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We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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If high-wage, high-cost nations like Germany and Japan can compete on exports, California can.
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I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
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All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
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Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
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I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too. Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.
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As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.
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His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again.
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I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
