Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.
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A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
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I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
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I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
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Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.
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By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
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Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.
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...the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.
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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
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What's lovely about 'Eureka' is that it's a sci-fi show, but it's not monsters from outer space; it's not craziness from outer space. It's just about this community of people and what they do. These geniuses have sometimes done wonderful things and sometimes created global warming. It has this wonderful left-of-center sense of humor.
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No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
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When it was clear that I was leaving Ajax in 1973, I was sent all kinds of poisonous messages and lots more of that kind of nonsense. But the worst thing for me was that Ajax gave my mother, who had always done her best for the club, an inferior seat in the stadium. Behind a pole. That absolutely crushed me.
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When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
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There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.
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I took drugs because we all took drugs.
