Santi White (Santigold) Quotes
I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
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The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.
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Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
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I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.
