Herbert Spencer Quotes
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I don't want to be a bust.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.
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Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'
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What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.
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Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
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Why do a reality show if you're going to be fake?
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Prolonged mimesis of the alphabet and its fragmenting properties produced a new dominant mode of perception and then of culture.
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If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga.
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When you decide to go after a new dream, you need to give less to your current reality and more to your desired reality... Take your energy out of what you don’t want to be doing anymore so you can put it in what you really want to be doing.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
