Verite Quotes
If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.
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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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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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In a lot of the really impoverished areas of Johannesburg you see these packets of cheesy puffs which are like 6 feet long and the width of a basketball, and they're transparent and they have like 10,000 cheesy puffs in them, and you can buy that for like 50 cents. It's kind of a weird treat that you'd see people having in the townships.
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No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.
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The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.
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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
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Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they want to be made happy. Listen to them. Make them happy. But don't rely on them to create the future road map for your product or service. That's your job.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
