Pia Toscano Quotes
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
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What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
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Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
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There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.
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Let's not play games. What I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.
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You have punched this person in the face.
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Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.
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My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.
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One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
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We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.
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I really like brunettes.
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Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily?
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If the people that love you are the people at your side on your last day, and there's not a soul in that room that has any bad words to say about you, well, I'd say Heaven awaits you, my friend.
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I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.
