Emily Haines Quotes

We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.

Emily Haines Broken Social Scene

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• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Fool
  • Laughing

• It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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• We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Lives
  • Result
  • Conscious

• I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • Force
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• I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

  

  Diana Ross
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• & I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
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• I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

  

  Louis Nizer
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• He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Song

• The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Reality

• God blessed us, ... It rained but we're still out here. This is what life is about. I'm glad I could get out here to put some smiles on these kids' faces.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Life
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• You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
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• That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• I think in general, people look at all Olympic athletes, look at all superstar athletes, and they say, "Okay, this guy doesn't have any insecurities." They're almost like these icons who - I don't know how to say it, but like they can't make mistakes. But the reality is, and I'll tell you this firsthand, a lot of great athletes have a lot of insecurities, and they have a really hard time dealing with a lot of so-called losing or however you want to classify it.

  

  Apolo Ohno
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• My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?' Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape's ferocious, anguished face. 'If you insist.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Hermione, will you please —” “Don’t you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!” she screeched. “Don’t you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!” She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Live
  • Audience
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• Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

  

  T. B. Joshua
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• If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Walk
  • Steps
  • Wheelchair

• By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

  

  Wes Nisker
  • Reality
  • Understanding
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• This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

  

  Michael Strahan
  • Trying
  • Want
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• No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

  

  Arthur Schnitzler
  • Loneliness
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• If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

  

  Sigourney Weaver
  • Value
  • Dead
  • System

• We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
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