Jillian Rose Banks Quotes
I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.
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This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.
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A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.
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Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.
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The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.
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I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.
