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I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
Regina Spektor
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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath.
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This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.
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I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.
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It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
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Never, never mind your bleeding heart.
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Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.
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And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.
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