Kim Gordon Quotes
A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I make sure that I'm not focused on other things when I'm spending time with my children.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.
