Danielle Trussoni Quotes
I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.
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I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?
