Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
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I've never been a particular fan of any genre.
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There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.
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I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.
