Jennifer Lopez Quotes
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.
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I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
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I know that I have a special stomach.
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That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
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I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.
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As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.
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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.
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When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
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Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there's a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It's so important to give that age range the right books that reflect their world and show them themselves.
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It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body.
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I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.
