Josiah Alexander Sila (Joey Alexander) Quotes
Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.
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Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!
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My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
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Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.
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As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.
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Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
