Tom Waits Quotes

I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.

Tom Waits

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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Matt Taibbi

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I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.

Stefon Harris

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Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

Shirley MacLaine

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When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

Rowan Atkinson

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Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

Marvin Ammori

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In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.

Lois Lowry

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Showbiz works well when you give the audience what they want.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role.

Diane Ladd

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Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them.

Chellie Pingree

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I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.

Chris Pine

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Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

Willis Polk

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I just did what I found interesting. I was so lucky that I was able to do that, especially in the '90s. I was really able to have a life to go back to.

Winona Ryder

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