Elizabeth Peyton Quotes
Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on 'civil liberties and human rights' conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.
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I'm shy, although I'm not shy with my friends and family.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
