Wale Quotes
Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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I really love peace and quiet.
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There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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Use a corrector to do all the heavy lifting under the eyes, not concealer. I spent years re-applying and layering concealer and Touche Eclat under there, when what I really needed was a good, peachy-toned corrector.
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If high-wage, high-cost nations like Germany and Japan can compete on exports, California can.
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You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.
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Omnes homines, patres conscripti, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira atque misericordia vacuos esse decet.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, 'smoked salmon and Bach.' (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)
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Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time.
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It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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We used to do 'Venus' live for a long time but never got 'round to recording it because people would always say it's too old-fashioned a song.
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Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.
