Elvis Stojko Quotes
When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.
