Alissa White-Gluz Quotes
Fighting the ongoing war in your day-to-day life, everybody has their battle going on that nobody else knows about.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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While our military mission is narrowly focused on saving lives, we continue to pursue the broader goal of a Libya that belongs not to a dictator, but to its people.
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A lot of people who watch figure skaters want us to look like pretty princesses. I want people to see the athlete, and I want to look like a woman among girls.
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In this journey, the fear creeps in from time to time. The hint of that is there because there's an unknown factor to everything. That's true in everyone's life. I don't choose to live there; I let it spark me.
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If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
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Fighting the ongoing war in your day-to-day life, everybody has their battle going on that nobody else knows about.
