Oliver Sim Quotes
Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
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But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.
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Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
