Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I got no hate in me.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.
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Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother's gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun's rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter's yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration - whoosh.
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As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.
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I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
