Sara Blakely Quotes
Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
Quotes to Explore
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.
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It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
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Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.
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Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.
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When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
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We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.
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Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
