Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.
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France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
