Anoushka Shankar Quotes
I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager.Anoushka Shankar
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
T. J. Miller -
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst -
I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
Venus Williams -
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
Sam Keen -
At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
Dan Stevens
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
Taylor Lautner -
This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
Ralph Nader -
When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
Taylor Swift -
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Baltasar Gracian -
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
Nancy Kress -
Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
Felicity Jones -
Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.
Yves Behar -
My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.
Laila Ali -
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.
R. Kelly -
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
Nathan Myhrvold
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Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
Dyan Cannon -
When you look at women and what's sexy right now, I feel like we're finally back to a curvaceous healthy body rather than just skinny with fake boobs.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau -
Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.
John Major -
All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
Hannah Simone -
I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager.
Anoushka Shankar