Marianne Faithfull Quotes

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

Marianne Faithfull

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 29, 1946

Topics

MeWake UpGrowLearnYouSometimes

I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.

Jo Brand

TimeHappyThinkYearYouWay

Free lodging for military families with loved ones in the hospital is something all Americans can rally behind.

John Delaney

FreeLovedMilitaryHospitalBehind

On my record cover, you can barely see my face. I still think I look really geeky.

Jeff Buckley

FaceThinkYouLookSeeStill

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

LifeWaveMomentsLife Is ASame

I'm a really big advocate of ethical fashion. I actually have a travelling boutique called Maison de Mode, which is all about ethical fashion. I also like Maiyet from Paris. They're very Celine-esque in their silhouettes. I love their back story, too: they work with orphans in Colombia and India.

Amanda Hearst

WorkLoveFashionStoryBackIndia

It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

Alva Myrdal

WomenMenPeacefulSecurityProtect

I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.

Travis Scott

GoodMusicCultureThinkVisual

We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic example. White flight in the North. School segregation. Gerrymandering.

Robin DiAngelo

SchoolPeopleColorBlackWhite

There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.

Michael Nesmith

ResearchLogicOutLittleIndustry

I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.

Juergen Teller

BeautifulMeCrazyWorldInteresting

Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.

Dianne Feinstein

HopeBuildingPresentNeverUs

I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.

Deborah Eisenberg

PeopleBelieveI BelieveGrandparents

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