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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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 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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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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Yves Saint Laurent didn't have friends. He loved nobody. He was intimate with nobody.
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I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
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I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
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Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.
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I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
