Grace Martine Tandon (Daya) Quotes
I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.
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Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we're the customer company. We're the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
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To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.
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I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.
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Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
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The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.
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In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.
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I really believe in the power of music.
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I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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I get to learn and teach something new everyday.
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My mother was born in Ghana, but she moved to the U.K. when my sisters and I were born.
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I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.
