Bjork Quotes
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
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At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.
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Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country... my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go - do your work.
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How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
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I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.
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I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels good. And I just knew that was the place I needed, wanted to be.
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Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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If you're ready to give yourself a little challenge, take a walk and mix in short bouts of jogging. It can boost your calorie burn and give you much needed cardiovascular benefits.
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The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.
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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
