Rex Orange County Quotes
I met a lot of label people at the start of doing this music thing, and I just realised soon that it wasn't much about music but more so about their paycheck at the end of the day.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.
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I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.
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I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.
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I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.
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There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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They'd have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-ticket holders have to be in a lottery to see if they get tickets, and then they don't get a good ticket. Really, no good can come out of it, and all it can do is upset your fans.
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I've been singing since I was nine or ten.
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I met a lot of label people at the start of doing this music thing, and I just realised soon that it wasn't much about music but more so about their paycheck at the end of the day.
