Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde (Birdy) Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
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Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
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Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
