Frederick Jackson Turner Quotes
Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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I've been things and seen places.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.
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When history calls, history calls.
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Most of the greatest albums in the history of music are one producer. It's just a fact. Or one collective.
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I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.
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I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
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Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.
