Austin Scarlett Quotes
Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing – everything from high fashion to street fashion.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
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Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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In order to lift a certain object from the ground, we have to use energy. But then to sustain it at that level, we have to keep on adding energy, or otherwise, the object falls to the ground. It's exactly the same thing with the sound.
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In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the successful Maccabean revolt to the Roman annexation in 63 BC constitutes about 100 years of Jewish rule. Combined with Israel's independence in 1948, this is about 160 years of effective sovereignty.
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As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing – everything from high fashion to street fashion.
