Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.
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I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
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I've never been one to dwell on reverses.
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Sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.
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As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
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Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.
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There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.
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President Obama believes in a level playing field.
