Sargent Shriver Quotes
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
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I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.
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I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.
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I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.
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I'm a cliche.
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'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
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And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.
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I'm such a big fan of Woody Allen. I once tried staying at the same hotel as him, hoping I would bump into him!
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The most important things in life aren't things.
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You're so focused on this child, you can sometimes forget about you as a couple, and that's just as important.
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We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.
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I never was a liner note junkie. I didn't know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.
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We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
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I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can be beautiful.
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I've never been one who wanted any type of attention, good nor bad.
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At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
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It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
