Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.
Uzodinma Iweala
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I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
Usain Bolt
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Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
Laura Donnelly
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Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
Whitney Houston
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FDA, which regulates the safety of vegetables, doesn't have those kinds of rules because Congress doesn't want it to. It's not that the vegetables themselves have anything wrong with them; it's that they're contaminated with animal manure. One of the rationales for a single food safety agency is that you can't separate animals from vegetables.
Marion Nestle
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Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
Bill Vaughan
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One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can.
Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.
Seth Godin
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People don't want gadgets, they want services.
Jeff Bezos
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Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
Joshua Foer
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Really now, I just can't seem to die... Where's the messy end I was promised?
Gangrel
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It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.
Nancy Lancaster
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In the most absolute tranquility or in the midst of tumultuous events, in safety or danger, in innocence or corruption, we are a crowd of others. And this crowd is certainly a blessing for literature.
Elena Ferrante
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Each album you make, each body of music, you just never know how the world's going to relate to it.
Robert Trujillo
Metallica
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As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.
Alejandro Zambra
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The creative process doesn’t change much. When writing a song, you’re looking for melody, rhythm and words that people can relate to.
Steve Gustafson
10,000 Maniacs
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After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.
Uzodinma Iweala
