Estelle Quotes
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
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I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.
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Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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The only thing I don't have is hips.
