Kim Gordon Quotes
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
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You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8.
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
