Lauren Mayberry Quotes
I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
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I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.
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I have some sarcastic sides of me.
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I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.
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All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
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I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.
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Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
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If you're a writer, you're always working.
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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
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It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.
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Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans, and break down bureaucratic barriers preventing them from finding work. It's smart legislation that members of both parties support, and I'm pleased the Senate passed it.
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I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change.
