Joan Smalls Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
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Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?
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One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
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We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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I guess the hard part is more in the development stage when we're writing it. The logic is hard. You come up with a great idea and you get all excited that it's going to work and then you go down two hours and then one guy turns to everyone and goes, 'Wait, that makes absolutely no sense because if he was there, then this wouldn't have happened, then this,' and it completely implodes.
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My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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My genetics are good, but they aren't crazy He-Man style.
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I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.
