Marina and the Diamonds Quotes
That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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I definitely have curves. I don't intend on losing them.
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The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
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I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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I give a goddamn if I never sell anotha millaI'll take my ass right back to silla hilla billaCompounds, come down, every day sell yayJust like the old days stack anotha mill up
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The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
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As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson, Madge Micheels-Cyrus, p. 244
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Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
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When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.
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I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.
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The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business.
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If our culture is so often readily and easily appropriated, imagine what happens when we embrace our full blackness and know that our contributions are just as important to the shaping of the country and, more broadly, the world.
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That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.
