Chet Baker Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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In order to lift a certain object from the ground, we have to use energy. But then to sustain it at that level, we have to keep on adding energy, or otherwise, the object falls to the ground. It's exactly the same thing with the sound.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.
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I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.
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One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.
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Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
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The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.
