Marilyn Minter Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.
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Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
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I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.
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You know when women look their best? When they're in love.
