Warsan Shire Quotes
Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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I think creativity becomes really beautiful and magical when you allow it to do what it's needing you to do.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance
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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
