Jon Bellion Quotes
I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.
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The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
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The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
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In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.
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I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.
