Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) Quotes
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Nothing ever goes away.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
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A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth - and joy. Make a 'career' of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you - and what you do 'for a living' makes you happy - you have found the best of all combinations.
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I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
