Johann Lamont Quotes
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
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I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.
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I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.
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My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
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Stuck on you.I've got this feeling downDeep in my soulThat I just can't lose.Guess, I'm on my way.Needed a friendAnd the way I feel now I guessI'll be with you till the endGuess I'm on my wayMighty glad you stayed.
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Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.
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It's really surreal when I play shows, I'll have three or four people who are in the front row who are singing every word to my songs. The first time I experienced that I was like,"Are they mocking me? Is this a joke?" But it's not a joke. They actually identify with my music and that is something that I'm getting used to.
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A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.
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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
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Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.
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I don't agree with the Tories on most things.
