Marianne Faithfull Quotes
I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
Quotes to Explore
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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I love cooking and baking.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.
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One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.
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I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
