Sara Bareilles Quotes
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
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I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
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My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
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I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.
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There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.
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I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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I love the sound and temperament of an upright piano.
