Marina and the Diamonds Quotes
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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Let us have peace.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.
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It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
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You have to be your biggest believer.
