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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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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To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
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Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even the car he drove, was a sign of him trying to be a force for good in this world.
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On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.
