Marianne Faithfull Quotes
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.
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I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.
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Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
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One of the biggest things that happened for me was YouTube.
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The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn't even really know what that means or who we're killing or... it's such a new weapon that we don't know what the long term impacts of that kind of military action is going to be.
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I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
