Kim Brooks Quotes

This is what shame does to women: It isolates us and makes us feel our stories aren't really stories at all but idiosyncratic flaws.

Kim Brooks

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Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100.

Michael Douglas

LiveOverTellGoingKids

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.

John Zorn

LifeTogetherMy LifeWaySamePut

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

Srikumar Rao

PositiveI AmNegativeThinkingYou

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

Toni Morrison

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Love's a disease. But curable.

Rose Macaulay

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As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

Ron Chernow

GreatRisksPeopleSexAchieveSin

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

Mary Stuart Masterson

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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

Michel de Montaigne

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The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

Luke Rhinehart

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I like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better.

Lou Barlow

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