Alice Merton Quotes
The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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Lunch was my favorite part at school.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
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Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Shaun of the Dead.'
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I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.
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For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
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Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
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I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality. 4
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The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.
