Valerie June Quotes
I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
Quotes to Explore
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I just want to be entertained. The stories that have aged the best are the ones where the wolf eats grandma, or the woman is going to bake children in an oven, or the bear is going to eat the girl for eating the porridge. There are lessons in there, but they're deeply engrained and hidden.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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I moved all the time as part of a military family, and I just really did not have very many friends. I remember having these feelings of walking into a room and feeling that nobody likes me, or thinking, 'I'm going to have to sit alone at lunch again.'
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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
