Big Smo Quotes
My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.
Quotes to Explore
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.
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And if it is true that we acquired our knowledge before our birth, and lost it at the moment of birth, but afterward, by the exercise of our senses upon sensible objects, recover the knowledge which we had once before, I suppose that what we call learning will be the recovery of our own knowledge . . . PLATO
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I have very special memories of the West Ham fans.
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Most people grow only large enough to solve their problems - not to reach their potential.
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Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?
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My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.
