Floor Jansen Quotes
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
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The other thing that has made playing live for me more enjoyable is the audience. I never knew I had such heartfelt, loving fans.
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I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
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I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage.
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Not everyone is as equally as adventurous as me. I get that.
