Xavier Rudd Quotes
I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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People have to evolve.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
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I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.
