Jessica Sanchez Quotes
'American Idol' is such a big platform. It's been on for so many seasons. I went on the show not thinking I was going to make it that far at all because there was so many talented people that auditioned.
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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We should all love animals.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had no idea what to wear. I think I did it in swimming trunks, then just put on a T-shirt and shoes for the bike part. Triathlons felt exotic. There was a technical and tactical aspect to it as well as the endurance challenge. I was hooked.
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I don't typically drink coffee.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
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The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era.
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'American Idol' is such a big platform. It's been on for so many seasons. I went on the show not thinking I was going to make it that far at all because there was so many talented people that auditioned.
