Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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We had to understand things like why the top quark was so heavy and the electron is so light. The Higgs is a big, important step.
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Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.
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Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.
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The whole reason Pinterest exists is to help people discover the things that they love and then go take action on them, and a lot of the things they take action on are tied to commercial intent.
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When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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Life is for the living, not the dead, who belong to the past and are at peace and beyond all further pain and suffering 'somewhere in the great somewhere.
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Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
