Keala Settle Quotes
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
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I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.
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I may be loaded. I may be drunk. But I ain't stupid.
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Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.
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Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.
