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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The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.
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Sometimes, I had very little - if any - idea for whom I was really working: at the end of the day, who reaped the profits? Was it a privately controlled German foundation or a global array of stockholders? A middle-class guy on the Upper West Side or Rupert Murdoch? Were we pursuing mere profit, or self-perpetuation, or something bigger?
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I took drugs because we all took drugs.
