Augustus William Hare Quotes
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
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I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.
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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
