Kim Gordon Quotes
My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.
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My main income is from speaking.
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It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.
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My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.
