Alissa White-Gluz Quotes
I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
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Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.
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Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.
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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.
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I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.
