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 continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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I can't tell my people that you will get power only from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., and after that, we live in darkness. You need 24-hour power; you need a baseload, and that baseload for India is coal. We are looking at clean coal technologies to reduce the impact of pollution.
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Wisdom sits with children round her knees.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
