Lauren Mayberry Quotes
A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.
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Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.
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Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.
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A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.
