Faris Badwan Quotes
It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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Make your choice and make it quick, either build a real heart, or get out of my way QUICK.
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I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it.
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Family matters. Family are the only people who will tell you when you're getting off the tracks a little. Surround yourself with people who love the Lord, love themselves and love you, and you can't really fail.
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It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.
