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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

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• People always want to doubt you.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Want
  • Doubt

• I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Song
  • Never
  • Pressure

• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Gossip

• The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

  

  Karl Marx
  • May
  • History
  • Movement

• You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Adventure

• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Education
  • Devil

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Music
  • Career

• Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Writing
  • Fun

• I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Work
  • School
  • Couple

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Foreign
  • Stunts

• Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Balance

• I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen

  

  Kanye West
  • Up
  • Music
  • Moments

• Nothing in my life has necessarily been easy, but eventually I see where it's gotten me to, and I say, 'Okay, it's been worth it.'

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Life

• Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together.

  

  Valentin Tomberg
  • Life
  • World
  • Together

• There is a big difference between just learning something, and actually LIVING what you learn.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Learning

• Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

  

  Jack Kornfield
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  • Feelings
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