Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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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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When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.
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Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
