Flume Quotes
I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I was a tomboy.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!
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I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
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Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuriating at times when they're little, but on the whole, they're such a joy. I don't think I was the most brilliant mother when they were young. I had quite a bit of help because I was working and I enjoyed my work.
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The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
