Estelle Quotes
I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
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Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.
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Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him.
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.
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Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
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They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.
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For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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When you slow down enough to sculpt, you discover all kinds of things you never noticed before.
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Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.
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He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
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I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.
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Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.
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I didn't fly on a plane until I was 19.
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Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
