Christina Stead Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.
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I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.
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Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
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You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.
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Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.
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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.
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People think hip-hop is evil, but it's sometimes the people making hip-hop that are evil. The genre isn't wicked, but the people in it are.
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The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.
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Forgiveness is the stroke of God within us. The American people haven't ignored what he did. He asked for forgiveness and the American people gave it to him. Theirs is the higher morality.
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It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.
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Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own
