John Oliver Quotes
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
La India
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
Carlton Cuse
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson
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People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
Ada Yonath
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
Dan Pink
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
Yasmine Al Masri
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
Hanya Yanagihara
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
Abbey Clancy
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I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.
Karan Johar
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
Patrick Ewing
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V. S. Naipaul
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
Lars Feld
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Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.
Adam Peaty
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All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
Aaron Sorkin
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I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
Sia LSD
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My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!
Kenny Rogers
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Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing the 'structures' that underlie complex situations, and for discerning high from low leverage change. That is, by seeing wholes we learn how to foster health. To do so, systems thinking offers a language that begins by restructuring how we think.
Peter Senge
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There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
William Sloane Coffin
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A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
Penn Jillette
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A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.
John Oliver