Saint Augustine Quotes
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I love cycling.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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This relationship is going to be built on trust.
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It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.
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You can only get down with Flavortown if you believe in Flavortown.
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If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.
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So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it.
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Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
