Grace Martine Tandon (Daya) Quotes
First Lady Michelle Obama - I admire her confidence, integrity, intelligence, compassion, and her overall vibe - she is such an inspiration.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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You're gifted to do something.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires.
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A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.
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I think it's always a really stupid thing to base your achievement on someone else. I just want to base it on myself... do something that I can be proud of, and then I'll be happy.
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First Lady Michelle Obama - I admire her confidence, integrity, intelligence, compassion, and her overall vibe - she is such an inspiration.
