Josie Maran Quotes
There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
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The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
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There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.
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To many of us it seems that there is precious little difference between the policies of the Communist Party and the policies of the Labour Party.
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They were hunting in a place that rich people pay to hunt at, okay? They actually... they drive them to where the animals are! That is not fucking hunting! There's a fence around the place! Son of a bitch! They means they go, when they're tracking the deer, 'Oh, look, we got 'em in the corner!' They turned a petting zoo into Auschwitz!
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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
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Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
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What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.
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I'm really focused and committed to teaching now. Maybe when I'm about 30, which is in 10 years, I would like to consider doing something like speech therapy. That's what I really would like to do. I could go and do that now but it's not my drive at the moment. My drive is acting right now.
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There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.