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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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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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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Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.
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There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
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The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.
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I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.
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I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously.
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France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
