Susan Minot Quotes
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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I want to be my own person.
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Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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I thought Steve Jobs was amazing. He was such a great businessman. Someone that has just been really continually successful with their brand and hasn't gone away, Madonna is incredible. We've all kind of listened to her for years and seen her grow up and change, and she's never strayed away from who she is.
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Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
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Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.
