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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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'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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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.
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We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.
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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!
