Andrew Bird Quotes

I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.

Andrew Bird

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There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

John C. Reilly

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During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Anatoly Chubais

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You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

Meg Whitman

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I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

John Paul Jones

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Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - I steer away from them. They're alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.

John Hillcoat

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Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Anna Sewell

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That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

Andy Samberg

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I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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I have a short attention span.

Tony Scott

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I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Robert Winston

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I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

Ruth Rendell

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I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

Johnny Weissmuller

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