Amanda Palmer Quotes

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Amanda Palmer

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I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Joel Osteen

MePressureCopyTryMoldTried

Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.

Matthew Desmond

PastSellReportsCourtList

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

NewUsPossessionEveryLoads

Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of public attention. June 29, 2007, was the exception. I was in the wrong place - Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan - with the right device. The iPhone.

Steven Levy

TechnologyAttentionApplePlace

I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times.

Steven Van Zandt

AmericaOverGetComeScreamTried

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

Sidney Hillman

BelieveWillParticipationMore

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

Robert Byrd

PeopleSpeakAmericanLibertySay

Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.

Ron Davies

SpeakMatterMattersOwnJudgement

I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar.

Michelle Dockery

DoorHouseGardenSushiWantLondon

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Jean Alesi

TimeMoonSpeakLanguageLearn

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.

Chow Yun-Fat

LoveJobActorWorkersMustJust

When you see 'Star Wars', and you see Greedo hustle up to Solo, you know they have a history; you understand that there's a dude named Jabba the Hutt who's after him, and Greedo is going to try to shoot him and get the money. You get what's going on there.

Christopher McCulloch

HistoryMoneyYouHustleKnowTry

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