I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. GLASER AND WAY The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. GLASER AND WAY I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell. DEYTH BANGER I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. SANDRA BERNHARD Here in Baton Rouge, I think a lot of rumors got started. (People) were just taking precaution. Any ... LAURIE ARONSON Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street. LENNY WILKENS We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... LISA KLEYPAS Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic. RYAN WHITE Life is like a seesaw you can be up hi one minute then before you know it you can be down low the ne... GARY F EVANS... He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street witho... DAVID CASSIDY Choose your words before talking SOTONYE ANGA I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compli... ALY MICHALKA There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging ... INDRA NOOYI Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you... SETH GODIN Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come... MARK FROST They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN It's just... you never show your face, when they record you. Rumors are starting, you know. People t... MARISSA MEYER Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behi... STACIA KANE It's unfortunate that people make more out of something than what it is. I don't know whether people... JOSEPH NARKIEWICZ There is no fear in the word LOVE! For LOVE does not know fear... PHILIP T. M. Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand. LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS Education is the transmission of civilization. ARIEL AND WILL DURANT 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I think blogging, by and large, is basically therapy. And I'm sure, and I know, that there are s... MIKE BARNICLE "I'll be happy when...." is the way many people think they are living their lives. Yet, happiness is... JOHN AGNO "I'll be happy when...." is the way many people think they are living their lives. Yet, happiness is... JOHN G AGNO Man does not live in isolation, we depend upon each other. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives. SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca... SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria] SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ... SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14. SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey] SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou... SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave. SEX AND THE CITY I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black. SEX AND THE CITY Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one. SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!" SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me. SEX AND THE CITY Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a... SEX AND THE CITY I knew I wanted a handbag, but they were so pricey. I love Marc Jacobs. SEX AND THE CITY All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves... SEX AND THE CITY 'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire. SEX AND THE CITY
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