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
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• 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
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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 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
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• 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
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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
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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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• How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
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• What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.

  

  B.J. Penn
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• Looks like the good Lord got your ass and face mixed up.

  

  John Marston
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• I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass was sore from that hard, unupholstered pew.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• For most men, time moves slowly, oh so slowly, they don't even realize it. But time has revealed itself to me in a very special way. Time is a rushing, howling wind that rages past me, withering me in a single, relentless blast, and then continues on. I've been sitting here passively, submissive to its rage, watching its work. Listen! Time, howling, withering!

  

  Barnabas
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• I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

  

  Erykah Badu
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• 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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