Hampton Sides Quotes
I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.
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John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!
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I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.
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Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.
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The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
