Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.
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Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
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I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Japan cannot conquer China with America in her rear, Soviet Russia on her right and England on her left - her most powerful enemies in the South Sea all flanking her. It is this international situation that constitutes one of Japan's great weaknesses.
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Burning is no answer.
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I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what's in common beneath those conversations.
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The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.
