OMI Quotes
My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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I really hate to write.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.
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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
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My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
