Jhene Aiko (Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo) Quotes
Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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When I was younger, I was quite scared of a red lip. But I started listening to '60s French ye-ye pop when I was making 'Sucker.' I was looking at Brigitte Bardot and those kinds of girls. When they were dressed up, it was often a bold red lip.
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I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
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I have a lot of confidence in myself, and I love that challenge as well. I love going to every competition as the favourite. It's something I relish.
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Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
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I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.
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Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water.
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Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.
