Kim Gordon Quotes
You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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A good leader must be fair.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.
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In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.
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When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
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The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.
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My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.'
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The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.
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For excess breeds hubris, when great prosperity comes to men of unsound mind.
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In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.
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You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
