Marianne Faithfull Quotes
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.Marianne Faithfull
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White -
There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
Randi Weingarten -
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
Tavi Gevinson -
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
Adam McKay -
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
Rachel Kushner -
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
Umberto Eco -
My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
Yoon Ahn -
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
Gary Shteyngart -
I married beneath me, all women do.
Nancy Astor
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
Jackie Robinson -
My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
Faith Evans -
I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
Harland Williams -
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
Jack Brickhouse -
I live for the text. It's my job.
Ian Mckellen -
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
Ramana Maharshi
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
Hank Aaron -
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot -
We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
Bianca Jagger -
When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.
Danny Meyer -
People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.
Joe Barton -
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.
Marianne Faithfull