Nellie McKay Quotes

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

Nellie McKay

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Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

Joan Crawford

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During Hurricane Sandy, we expended billions and billions of dollars, literally. In the handling of the emergency and the construction and the aftermath, trying to get people to come back to the affected communities. So I'm very proud of what the state did.

Andrew Cuomo

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Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.

Jed S. Rakoff

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Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

John Tavener

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Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

John Polanyi

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I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

Sienna Miller

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It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.

Rob Zombie

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Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics.

Rupert Friend

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There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

Millicent Fawcett

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I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

Jonathan Glazer

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