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 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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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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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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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.
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I'm writing about what's happening to me now. I mean, I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?
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I used to actually work in a comic book stores in New York.
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Whenever I interview someone for a job, I always ask them whether they want to sit in Bernanke's chair. The only wrong answer is, 'Who's Bernanke?'.
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Reincarnation and projection, you see, are one and the same thing . . . When you are attached to the physical organism your projections are not as complete - the difference between a reincarnational instance and a simple projection from the physical state.
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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.
