Regina Spektor Quotes
Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.
Quotes to Explore
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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Fashion should be playful.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
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After PepsiCo, I do want to go to Washington. I want to give back.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
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I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune.
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When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.
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Awkwardness gives me great comfort.
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And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
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Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.
