Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
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In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
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The law is cruel.
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I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.
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What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
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You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy', and the other 'tyranny'.
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Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.
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For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
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At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.
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When I get married it will be for keeps.
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The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.
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My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
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The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
