Kim Gordon Quotes
I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Laura Riding
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
Larry Ellison
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
Gavin Newsom
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
Carine Roitfeld
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
Karen Thompson Walker
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
Nate Berkus
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
Rachel Weisz
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
Hans Rosling
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
Laura Hillenbrand
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn Blur
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Ted Rall
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Everything and anything is valuable.
Wadada Leo Smith
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
Quentin Tarantino
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
Forest Whitaker
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There have been artists who've sold out arenas one year, and the next they can't fill a theatre. There's always more to achieve.
Shawn Mendes
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I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.
Clive Granger
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I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.
Miranda Lambert
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Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.
Pim Fortuyn
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
Taylor Swift
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I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth