Edith Piaf Quotes
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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Capital was always the struggle. I always had these amazing visions. Had this amazing work ethic. Had this amazing work partner in my wife. But I was always struggling for capital. I owe a lot to local banks who were willing to take chances on Jo and I early in our career.
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Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren't getting the pay they deserve. While I don't expect the government to solve all these problems, I do want leaders who care about these things and do what they can to help.
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It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.
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I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
