Nina Easton Quotes
Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
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Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.
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The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.
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You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.
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The Jones Act is an important tool to maintain Northeast Florida's domestic ship repair industry, which is so vital to our Navy and national security.
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When you're playing in front of people, everything is external. It's all going from you out to an audience. When you're in a studio, it's very internalised, it's going from the air through you into this meticulously crafted, layered piece of work.
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Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.
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In college, I had an early introduction to classical genetics from Professor Dan Lindsley, also an extraordinary teacher who influenced me greatly.
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Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.
