Grace Martine Tandon (Daya) Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.
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One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.
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Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
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There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.
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Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work.