Isobel Campbell Quotes
I thought, 'you're on tour leading a crazy life right now, but you've just asked me to make an album and I'm going to hold you to that'. He was really encouraging, which is nice because I doubt myself often.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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How lucky am I?
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they build and bond with one another.
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More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
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So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.
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I let people down easy with inspiration.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
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I thought, 'you're on tour leading a crazy life right now, but you've just asked me to make an album and I'm going to hold you to that'. He was really encouraging, which is nice because I doubt myself often.
