Sara Bareilles Quotes
There's no way to make the pain play fair It doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.
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The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.
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All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.
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Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.
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In any case the road to success is pictured as one beset with perils but which, it would seem, an individual with the proper qualities can overcome to attain the goal. The reward is seen in the distance; the way is lonely. Further on it is a route for wolves; one can succeed only at the cost of the failure of others.
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There's no way to make the pain play fair It doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there
