Marianne Wiggins Quotes
I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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Uncovering that behaviour was a very dark moment. Determining what to do about it was easy. In life and business, when things go wrong, I believe that you have to accept responsibility and take the next step. When you falter, you need to face forward
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International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
