August Alsina Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.
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I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.
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Love yourself and learn to love this thing called life.
