Marianne Faithfull Quotes
I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
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Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
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Man is not made better by being degraded.
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The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.
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Billy Pilgrim music is very emotional. It's one part the craft we learned from people like the Indigo Girls and R.E.M., and one part the Tom Waits craft, where you're trying to create a moment.
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I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
