Sarah Kay Quotes
The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.
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Above all, you must maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.
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What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.
