William Morris Quotes
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Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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When you use your faith, it gives you energy. It gives you the ability to be able to see beyond where you are right now and see into the future.
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I really don't have a guilty pleasure.
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The U.S., out of all places, is just absolutely incredible.
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If a person finds that he doesn’t know himself very well, often he can rely on the help of another person who has known him and has been able to observe him over several years.
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A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
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Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.
