Willa Cather Quotes
There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
Quotes to Explore
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
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The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
