Pope Francis Quotes
It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.
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When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
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I always tell people that it's so much harder to make a happy song than a sad one.
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My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
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It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!
